Seneca the Younger Quotes About Happiness

• True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

• A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Character, Guarantees

• What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

• Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

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  Life, Happiness, People

• There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

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  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Happiness, Money

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• Learn how to feel joy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Joy, Feels

• Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.

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  Happiness, Philosophy, Real

• True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Happiness, Laughter

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• It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Attitude, Health

  "Hippolyus", CCXLIX in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 356-357), 1922.

• Where fear is, happiness is not.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.

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  Happiness, Men, Humanity

• The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

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  Life, Happiness, Future

• If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Men, Soul

• The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

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  Happiness, Gratitude, Mind

• Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

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  Birthday, Happiness, Believe

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• Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

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  Life, Happiness, Death

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• Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

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  Happiness

• It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Happiness, People

• A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary

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  Happiness, Stress, Men

• A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

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  Happiness, Happy, Philosophical

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• Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Failure, Adversity

• Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

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  Happiness, Powerful, Men

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• Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Vices, Leisure

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