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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