Seneca the Younger Quotes About Suffering

• 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

• 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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• We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

  Seneca the Younger

  Reality, Imagination, Suffering

• We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. [We must learn to control and focus the force of our imagination on the good, bright side so it is positive and constructive helping ourselves and others, rather than let its force focus on the bad, dark side so it is negative and destructive hurting ourselves and others!]

  Seneca the Younger

  Hurt, Dark, Reality

• What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sweet, Suffering, Remember

• We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Sight, Blood

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Stress, Men

• Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

  Seneca the Younger

  Real, Evil, Suffering

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• We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

  Seneca the Younger

  Errors, Long, Suffering

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 871-82, Of Benefits, Book V, Chapter XXV, Epigram 67, 1922.

• Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Suffering, Ease

• The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.

  Seneca the Younger

  Pain, New Experiences, Evil

• Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Boredom, Suffering

• Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

  Seneca the Younger

  Courage, Adversity, Men

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