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 22 Powerful Seneca Quotes on Life, Wisdom, and the Path to Greatness



߹ 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.

߹ We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

߹ Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

߹ If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

߹ Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms — you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.

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

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

߹ Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.

߹ No man was ever wise by chance.”
“Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

߹ He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.

߹ Only time can heal what reason cannot.

߹ 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.

߹ We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

߹.Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

߹ If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

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

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

߹ Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.

߹ No man was ever wise by chance.

߹ Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

߹ Only time can heal what reason cannot. 

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