Seneca the Younger Quotes About Inspirational
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No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.
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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
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If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
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Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
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To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
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The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
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What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
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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.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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The best ideas are common property.
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I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.
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While you teach, you learn.
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.
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The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
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Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.
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You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.
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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
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You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.
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