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Seneca the Younger Quotes about Life

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

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.

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

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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.

Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Happiness, People

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Procrastination, Acting

Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Positive Thinking, Addiction

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Philosophy, Immortal

Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Speech, Feels

When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Sick, Alive

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

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Happiness, Money
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Motivational, Procrastination

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Happiness, Future

We learn not in the school, but in life.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Learning, School

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Giving, Hours

Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Inspire, Accepted

We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Fashion, Reason

Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Long, Mind

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

Seneca the Younger
Life, Death, Kindness

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Happiness, Death
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Life, Wise

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Long, Wells
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Courage, Hero

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