Start living like the great stoic philosopher Seneca with 45 of his best quotes, aphorisms, and ideas on courage, life, wealth, and stoicism.
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Best Seneca quotes from this video:
“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
“Ignorance is the cause of fear”
“Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune's control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
“Only time can heal what reason cannot.”
“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”
“He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.”
“Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”
“They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.”
“No man was ever wise by chance”
“What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.”
“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”
“He who is brave is free”
“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ”
“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.”
“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”
“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
“Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.”
“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
“You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire”
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
"There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
“All cruelty springs from weakness.”
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
“Wealth is the slave of the wise. The master of the fool.”
“Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.”
“I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.”
“If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.”
“We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth.”
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
“It is quality rather than quantity that matters.”
“He who indulges in empty fears earns himself real fears.”
“Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.”
“Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.”
“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”
“It is better to conquer our grief than to deceive it.”
“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.”
“Of this one thing make sure against your dying day – that your faults die before you do.”
“The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.”
“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.”
“We should not, like sheep, follow the herd of creatures in front of us, making our way where others go, not where we ought to go.”
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