Abstinence is easier than temperance. Seneca the Younger More Quotes by Seneca the Younger More Quotes From Seneca the Younger True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. Seneca the Younger motivational happiness inspirational Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Seneca the Younger happiness life people We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within. Seneca the Younger empowering character long Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long. Seneca the Younger care men long What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint? Seneca the Younger speech views mind Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours. Seneca the Younger delay favour flight There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world. Seneca the Younger time men long We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. Seneca the Younger adversity appreciation life Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. Seneca the Younger motivational positive inspirational He who asks with timidity invites a refusal. Seneca the Younger refusal invites asks A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant. Seneca the Younger wisdom wise men Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received. Seneca the Younger favour silent speak As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity. Seneca the Younger soul mother looks There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay. Seneca the Younger gratitude time men There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself. Seneca the Younger he-man trying men Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's. Seneca the Younger tasks work today When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive. Seneca the Younger sick alive life There is no easy way from the earth to the stars. Seneca the Younger stars latin history One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. Seneca the Younger loyalty beautiful friendship Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. Seneca the Younger liquor-funny alcohol drinking
