Inspirational Quotations by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • We often want one thing and pray for another,
    not telling the truth even to the Gods.
    From Issue 1
  • Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
    From Issue 18
  • He who seeks wisdom is a wise man;
    he who thinks he has found it is mad.
    From Issue 23
  • Fire is the test of gold;
    adversity, of strong men.
    From Issue 37
  • True happiness is...to enjoy the present,
    without anxious dependence upon the future.
    From Issue 66
  • If a man knows not what harbor he seeks,
    any wind is the right wind.
    From Issue 70
  • Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
    From Issue 162
  • The thing that matters is not what
    you bear, but how you bear it.
    From Issue 176
  • Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
    From Issue 178
  • While we are postponing, life speeds by.
    From Issue 257
  • A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party:
    there is no battle unless there be two.
    From Issue 260
  • The soul has this proof of its divinity:
    that divine things delight in it.
    From Issue 290

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