“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.”
“You are your choices.”
“What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.”
“To rule yourself is the ultimate power.”
“While we teach, we learn.”
“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.”
“No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.”
“If you don’t know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.”
“Don’t stumble over something behind you.”
“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.”
“If you don’t know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.”
“Every journey has an end.”
“The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.”
“The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution.”
“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?”
“Time discovers truth.”
“Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.”
“God is near you, is with you, is inside you.”
“To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.”
“When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.”
“Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.”
“Many things have fallen only to rise higher.”
“They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.”
“The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.”
“Real improvement is of slow growth only.”
“Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.”
“The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.”
“Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.”
“Chance makes a plaything of a man’s life.”
“No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.”
“Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.”
“Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.”
“If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.”
“A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.”
“Men learn while they teach.”
“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”
“Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.”
“Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.”
“It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.”
“If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world’s caprice, you will never be rich.”
“You learn to know a pilot in a storm.”
“We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.”
“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”
“To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.”
“As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.”
“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 artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.”
“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.”
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