Seneca Quotes


26 quotes:

"We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them."
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Procrastination Quotes
"He is most powerful who has power over himself"
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Power Quotes
"Luck never made a man wise."
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Luck Quotes
"While we teach, we learn."
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Learning Quotes Russian Composer Quotes
"We learn not in the school, but in life"
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Learning Quotes
"The whole world is my native land"
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Land Quotes
"A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature."
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Individuality Quotes
"Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride"
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Hunger Quotes
"If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh"
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Happiness Quotes
"Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy"
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Gifts Quotes
"He who is brave is free."
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Freedom Quotes
"To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none"
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Forgiveness Quotes
"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Dependence Quotes
"True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient"
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Dependence Quotes
"Give yourself time and room; what reason could not avoid, delay has often cured"
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Delay Quotes
"A man who has taken your time recognizes no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay"
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Debt Quotes
"He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct"
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Scholars And Scholarship Quotes Conclusion Quotes
"Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it."
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Comfort Quotes
"What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing"
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Choice Quotes
"This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly"
Author: Seneca Quotes Category: Body Quotes

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