Faults Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Faults Fortunate Happiness Humanity Men Nature of man Unhappy
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy — Boethius Copy Share Image
If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others. — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed. — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact that they… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions-… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose faults The… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
How come you don't feel that magic in the air? I guess I knew you'll never be there. I guess I knew you never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them. — Charles Marion Russell Copy Share Image
LEGO has announced that they are shutting down their U.S. factory and moving it to Canada. LEGO employees say it's their fault because they… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right, it's… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
