Seneca the Younger Inspirational Quotes

• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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• The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Fate, Guides

• Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Learning, People

• Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Wise, Men

  "On the Good Life". 26:1,

• 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

• It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Greatness, What Matters

• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

• While we are postponing, life speeds by.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

• It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXIV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Slavery, Human Trafficking

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• My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Education, Teaching

• Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Death

• If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  'Epistulae ad Lucilium' letter 71, sect. 3

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• To the believers it is true.
  To the wise it is false.
  To the leaders it is useful.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

• You are your choices.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Choices

• You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Character

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

• No man was ever wise by chance.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82., 1922.

• Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Travel, Vigor

• Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Honor

• He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Positive, Helping Others

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Happiness, Laughter

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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