Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”

“We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.”

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

“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”

“Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.”

“Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.”

“Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.”

“The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.”

“A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.”

“The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.”