Seneca the Younger
Don't stumble over something behind you.Collection: Motivational
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.Collection: Reality
If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.Collection: Wise
The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solutionCollection: Important
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficultCollection: Inspirational
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.Collection: Men
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.Collection: Life
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.Collection: Wise
No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.Collection: Meaningful
Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.Collection: Heart
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, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.Collection: Inspirational
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.Collection: Inspirational
You are your choices.Collection: Inspirational
Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.Collection: Inspirational
It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.Collection: Encouragement
Find a path or make one.Collection: Path
He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.Collection: Wise
The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.Collection: Ruins
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.Collection: Favour
He is most powerful who governs himself.Collection: Powerful
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.Collection: Power
Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.Collection: Laughing
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.Collection: Men
Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.Collection: Hate
Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.Collection: Motivational
Luck never made a man wise.Collection: Wise
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.Collection: True Friend
We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.Collection: Blame
While we wait for life, life passesCollection: Waiting
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.Collection: Educational
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.Collection: Inspirational
A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.Collection: Dwarves
It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.Collection: Praise
Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.Collection: Life
Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.Collection: Work
There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.Collection: Ambition
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.Collection: Inspirational
The abundance of books is distractionCollection: Book
My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.Collection: Teaching
Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.Collection: Men
Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.Collection: Nature
Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.Collection: Distance
You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.Collection: Inspirational
Mercy often inflicts death.Collection: Mercy
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.Collection: Philosophy
Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor.Collection: Death
An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.Collection: Time
Life is short and art is long.Collection: Art
That which takes effect by chance is not an art.Collection: Art