“It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”
— Seneca the Younger
“No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.”
“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”
“What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.”
“You are your choices.”
“To rule yourself is the ultimate power.”
“While we teach, we learn.”
“No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.”
“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”
“If you don’t know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.”
“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.”
“Don’t stumble over something behind you.”
“The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.”
“If you don’t know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.”
“The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution.”
“Every journey has an end.”
“Time discovers truth.”
“Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.”
“To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.”
“God is near you, is with you, is inside you.”
“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?”
“When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.”
“Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.”
“They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.”
“Real improvement is of slow growth only.”
“Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.”
“Many things have fallen only to rise higher.”
“No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.”
“Chance makes a plaything of a man’s life.”
“The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.”
“Men learn while they teach.”
“Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.”
“You learn to know a pilot in a storm.”
“Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.”
“A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.”
“As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.”
“Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.”
“Greed’s worst point is its ingratitude.”
“Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.”
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
“If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.”
“We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.”
“The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.”
“A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he’s no taller.”
“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.”
“If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world’s caprice, you will never be rich.”
“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.”
“We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.”
“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”
“Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.”
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