Marcus Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

What must be shall be and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

When in fear it is safest to force the attack.

Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

One who's our friend is fond of us one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth and for the great benefits of our being our life health and reason we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

For greed all nature is too little.

The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

Failure changes for the better success for the worse.