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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

Seneca the Younger
Adversity, Men, Unhappy

Whatever begins, also ends.

Seneca the Younger
Time, Ends, End Times
"Seneca's Consolations". Book by Seneca the Younger, 40–45 AD..

If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.

Seneca the Younger
Wise, School, Men

Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.

Seneca the Younger
Men, Groups, Achieve

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

Seneca the Younger
Reality, Imagination, Suffering

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Seneca the Younger
Important, Gains, Problem

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Strength, Success
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Don't stumble over something behind you.

Seneca the Younger
Motivational, Wisdom, Inspiration

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

Seneca the Younger
Meaningful, Wind, Roots

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Philosophical, Men
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Seneca the Younger
Wise, Religious, Atheist

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Seneca the Younger
Workout, Philosophical, Exercise
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

You are your choices.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Life, Choices

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.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Life, Happiness

There exists no more difficult art than living.

Seneca the Younger
Art, Difficult

Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Learning, People

Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.

Seneca the Younger
Heart, Eye, Vision

He is most powerful who governs himself.

Seneca the Younger
Powerful, Most Powerful

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Fear, Motivation

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Seneca the Younger
Encouragement, Choices, Easy

There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.

Seneca the Younger
Investing, Changed, Situation

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Wise, Men
"On the Good Life". 26:1,

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

Seneca the Younger
Favour, Speak, Silent

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Appreciation, Adversity
"Epistolæ Ad Lucilium" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82., 1922.

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