Seneca the Younger Quotes

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• We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
• Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
• A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
• Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of…
• Everything hangs on one's thinking.
• The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.
• What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
• There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.
• Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
• Man is a social animal.
• A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
• For greed, all nature is too little.
• You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
• We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either…
• Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
• We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.
• He who is brave is free.
• Luck never made a man wise.
• Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
• May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

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