Seneca the Elder quotes

No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Men #Swim #Concentration

Courage leads starward, fear toward death.
-- Seneca the Elder

Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Inspire

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Forgiveness #Loss #Evil

He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Nobility

It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Motivational #Motivation #Men

What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Wealth #Enough

The great soul surrenders itself to fate.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Fate #Acceptance #Soul

Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.
-- Seneca the Elder

#One Day #Poverty #You Again

If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Wish #Fear Nothing #Fear Not

It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Manly

For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Look Up

It is not death we fear, but the thought of it.
-- Seneca the Elder

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Subjects #Persons #Remorse

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Positive #Happy Life #Life Is

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Hurt #Fear #Stress

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Adversity #Brave #Faces

Nothing is our except time.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Time

Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed. In order to consider himself supremely blessed he must deeply understand that things could be much worse but aren't! To not do that is to always be less happy than he could be.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Gratitude #Blessed #Men

It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen. This right is common to the whole human race.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Hands #Race #Giving

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Silence #Speech #Great Things

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Mind #Unlearn

You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Love #Ends

Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Courage #Brave #Fortune

Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Blessed #Men #Blessing

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back
-- Seneca the Elder

#Believe #Winning #Toil

If you want to be loved, love.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Life #Love Life #Want

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Acceptance #Thinking #Important

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Gratitude #Being Thankful #Looks

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
-- Seneca the Elder

#Inspirational #Passion #Night

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Birth #Disposition #Born

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Lines #Citing #Ashamed

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Mean #Safety #Doe

The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Long #Example

The sun also shines on the wicked.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Shining #Wicked #Wickedness

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Life #Men #Wind

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Party #Two #Battle

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Kings #People #Emptiness

When in fear, it is safest to force the attack.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Force

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Greatness #Mind #Excess

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Powerful #Heart #Evil

All art is an imitation of nature.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Nature #Art #Imitation

There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Men #Lasts #Path

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Change For The Better

Know this, that he that is a friend to himself, is a friend to all men.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Men

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Half #Poison #Drink

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.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Want #True Happiness #Enjoy

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Mind #Desire #Demand