Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. -Seneca

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well. -Seneca

If you judge, investigate. -Seneca

I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people. -Seneca

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -Seneca

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. -Seneca

There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace
for it. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman philosopher (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I
mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what
virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought
every day to the shrift. -Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness. -Seneca Lucius Annaeus Seneca Ronam Philosopher and playright 4 B.C.- 65 A.D.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life. Seneca (c 5-65) Roman writer, philosopher, statesman

He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his
debt. -Seneca

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. -Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca, philosopher and writer (c. 3 BCE - AD 65)

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca, writer and philosopher (BCE 3-65 CE)

Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca, writer and philosopher (BCE 3-65 CE)
 

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