Seneca quotes – VIII

Published by Editor 26 de July de 2013

Miscellany

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,mwhich is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

The sun also shines on the wicked.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without culture, so the mind, without cultivation, can never produce good fruit.

Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

He who profits by a crime, commits it.

After a bad harvest sow again.

Life’s like a play; it’s not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters”

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude — confidence in self.

If you wish to be loved, love

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Courage leads to heaven; fear to death

While we teach, we learn.

It is valid we try to know to which bad and painful servitude we submit when we abandon ourselves to the alternate power of the pleasures and of the pains, this two so capricious masters how much tyrannical.

The wishes of the life form a current which links are the hopes.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the

less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the

estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

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