It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. Seneca More Quotes by Seneca More Quotes From Seneca Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. Seneca where preparation luck opportunity Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. Seneca always sometimes love friendship Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life. Seneca ship i-am life death Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. Seneca count begin live day life While we teach, we learn. Seneca learn while teach We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. Seneca reflect nothing how never Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. Seneca voluntary nothing drunkenness madness