Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

No one can give you wisdom. You must discover it for yourself.

Time discovers truth.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

While we wait for life, life passes.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

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

He who is brave is free.

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

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

The greatest teacher is experience.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

The first step is you have to say that you can.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

While we teach, we learn.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

No one can give you wisdom. You must discover it for yourself.

Time discovers truth.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes part 2

While we wait for life, life passes.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

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

He who is brave is free.

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

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

The greatest teacher is experience.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

The first step is you have to say that you can.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

While we teach, we learn.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

A grateful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all other virtues.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

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