That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded. 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 motivationalhappinessinspirational Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Seneca the Younger happinesslifepeople 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 empoweringcharacterlong 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 caremenlong 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 speechviewsmind Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours. Seneca the Younger delayfavourflight 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 timemenlong We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. Seneca the Younger adversityappreciationlife Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. Seneca the Younger motivationalpositiveinspirational He who asks with timidity invites a refusal. Seneca the Younger refusalinvitesasks 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 wisdomwisemen Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received. Seneca the Younger favoursilentspeak 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 soulmotherlooks 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 gratitudetimemen 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-mantryingmen Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's. Seneca the Younger tasksworktoday When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive. Seneca the Younger sickalivelife There is no easy way from the earth to the stars. Seneca the Younger starslatinhistory One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. Seneca the Younger loyaltybeautifulfriendship Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. Seneca the Younger liquor-funnyalcoholdrinking
