Seneca quotes Died: 00/00/0065 Country: italy

• Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death. ( Seneca) [courage/fear/death]
• Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant. ( Seneca)
• Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure. ( Seneca) [land]
• He that does good to another does good also to himself. ( Seneca)
• Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. ( Seneca) [willpower/contempt]
• Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. ( Seneca) [mind/soul & body]
• A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. ( Seneca) [punishment]
• Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. ( Seneca) [death/wish/start]
• The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way. ( Seneca) [death/reach/death/moment]
• Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse. ( Seneca) [economy]
• Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order. ( Seneca) [men/order]
• Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands. ( Seneca) [desire/situation]
• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. ( Seneca)
• Fortune can take away riches, but not courage. ( Seneca) [fortune/take/courage]
• Crime when it succeeds is called virtue. ( Seneca) [crime/virtue]
• He has committed the crime who profits by it. ( Seneca) [crime]
• One crime has to be concealed by another. ( Seneca) [crime]
• The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances. ( Seneca) [mind/more]
• The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling. ( Seneca)
• It is the superfluous things for which men sweat. ( Seneca) [men]
• Disease is not of the body but of the place. ( Seneca) [disease/soul & body]
• It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. ( Seneca) [greatness/security/god]
• There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. ( Seneca) [courage]
• In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul. ( Seneca) [time/windows/perfection/philosophy]
• The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective. ( Seneca)
• There is no delight in owning anything unshared. ( Seneca) [delight]
• If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him. ( Seneca)
• 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. 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. ( Seneca) [happiness/present/dependence/future]
• For greed all nature is too little. ( Seneca) [greed/nature]
• We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. ( Seneca) [give/benefit]
• If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. ( Seneca) [right]

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