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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Lucius Annaeus Seneca quotes

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While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "While we are postponing, life speeds by."
While we are postponing, life speeds by. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "Life is warfare."
Life is warfare. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "A great mind becomes a great fortune."
A great mind becomes a great fortune. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "Throw aside all hindrances and give up your time to attaining..."
Throw aside all hindrances and give up your time to attaining a sound mind Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends..."
When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
No good thing renders its possessor happy, unless his mind is reconciled to the possibility of loss; nothing, however, is lost with less discomfort than that which, when lost, cannot be missed. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
you shall be told what pleased me to-day in the writings of. Hecato; it is these words: "What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself." That wasindeed a great benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You should rather suppose that those are involved in worthwhile duties who wish to have daily as their closest friends Zeno, Pythagoras, Democritus and all the other high priests of liberal studies, and Aristotle and Theophrastus. None of these will be too busy to see you, none of these will not send his visitor away happier and more devoted to himself, none of these will allow anyone to depart empty-handed. They are at home to all mortals by night and by day. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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