More from Seneca
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
SenecaSeneca It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
SenecaSeneca Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
SenecaSeneca Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
SenecaSeneca It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
SenecaSeneca The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today
SenecaSeneca Retire into yourself as much as possible.
SenecaSeneca What’s the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
SenecaSeneca The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution.
SenecaSeneca Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
SenecaSeneca A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
SenecaSeneca Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
SenecaSeneca Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present.
SenecaSeneca Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
SenecaSeneca The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.
SenecaSeneca 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.
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