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

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.

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

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

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

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,

What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Motivational, Positive
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Success, Uplifting
"Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXIV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Happiness, Laughter
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Appreciation, Character
"Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Life, Nature

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

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Inspiring, Thank You
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Success, Courage
"De Providentia" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 9-10., 1922.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Motivational, Positive
'Epistulae ad Lucilium' letter 71, sect. 3

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Fall, Optimistic

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Philosophical, Health
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Art, Men
"De Brevitate, XX" by Seneca the Younger, 49 AD.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Greatness, What Matters

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Reason, Heal

He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Positive, Helping Others

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Spiritual, Ideas
"Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter XII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

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