I leave you more than 100 Phrases of Lucio Anneo Seneca , Philosopher, politician, orator and Roman writer known for his works of moral character.
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1-The time will come when diligent research for long periods will bring to light things that are now hidden.
2-Sometimes even living is an act of courage.
3-True happiness is to enjoy the present, not anxiously depend on the future, not to have fun with hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have.
4-Luck is what happens when the preparation meets the opportunity.
5-All cruelty arises from weakness.
6-Religion is considered by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
7-Difficulties strengthen the mind, as work strengthens the body.
8-As a story, that's life: not how long it lasts, but how good it is, that's what matters.
9-There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
10-Hold on to your youthful enthusiasm, you can use it better when you are older.
11-I will never be ashamed to quote a bad author if his argument is good.
12-A single life, although entirely dedicated to heaven, would not be sufficient for the investigation of such a vast subject.
13-A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it is, without wanting what he does not have.
14-The power of the mind is to be unconquerable.
15-They act as mortals in all that they fear, and as immortal in all that they desire.
16-The life we receive is not short, but we do it like this; We are not ill-supplied, but we waste what we have.
17-If a man does not know which port to sail to, he will never have a favorable wind.
18-Start immediately to live, and count each day separately as if it were an independent life.
19-He who is brave is free.
20-The greatest obstacle to life is the expectation, which looms over tomorrow, and makes us lose today. You are arranging what is in the hands of fortune and you abandon what depends on you.
21-It is not the man who has very little, but the man who longs for more, the poor.
22-No man was wise by chance.
23-Some lose the day in the expectation of the night, and the night because of the fear of the dawn.
24-Suffer more than necessary, the one who suffers before it is necessary.
25-We suffer more often in the imagination than in reality.
26-Until we have begun to walk without something, we do not realize how unnecessary are many things. We have been using them not because we need them but because we had them at hand.
27-Only time can heal what reason can not.
28-Life is like a play: it is not the length, but the excellence of the performance that matters.
29-Get involved with people who can make you better.
30-Ignorance is the cause of fear.
31-Wealth is a slave to the wise man. The master of the fool.
32-The most powerful one is in his own power.
33-The sun also shines on the wicked.
34. A sword never kills anybody; Is a tool in the hand of the killer.
35-If you really want to escape the things that haunt you, what you need is not to be in a different place, but to be a different person.
36-Leisure without books is death, and the burial of a living man.
37-Enjoy the current pleasures in a way that does not harm the future.
38-A gift does not consist in what is done or given, but in the intention of the donor or doer.
39-Destiny leads to the willing and drags the reluctant.
40-There will come a time when our descendants will be surprised that we do not know the things that are so obvious to them.
41-The whole future is in uncertainty: live.
42-We do not learn in school, but in life.
43-Every night we should get an account: what weakness have I overcome today? What passions have they opposed? What temptation have I resisted? What virtue have I acquired?
44-As long as you live, continue to learn to live.
45. Anger, if not restricted, is often more harmful to us than the injury that causes it.
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
47. Desiring to be well is a part of being well.
48. Every new beginning comes from the other beginning.
49-To err is human, but to persist in error is diabolical.
50-He who struck you was stronger or weaker than you. If it is weaker, leave it; If it is stronger, take care.
51-If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; If you live according to what others think, you will never be rich.
52-It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books you have.
53. There is no genius without a touch of madness.
54-Life is long, if you know how to live it.
55-People are frugal in the custody of their personal property; But when it comes to time, people waste it, even if it is the only thing that is right to be greedy.
56-He who forgives the wicked hurts the good.
57-We are crazy, not only individually but at the national level. We look at isolated homicides and murders, but what about the war and the much-vaunted crime of killing entire peoples?
58-It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
It is difficult to lead people to kindness with lessons, but it is easy to do by example.
"Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.
61. Everyone prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
"I was not born in a corner; The whole world is my homeland.
63-The other side must also be heard.
64. True happiness is to understand our duties to God and man.
65. The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
66-The best ideas are common property.
67-To always be fortunate, and to go through life with a soul that has never known sadness, is to ignore one half of nature.
68-What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? However, hard rocks are punctured by water.
69-Consider a friend as loyal, and you will be loyal.
70-When one considers someone as a friend, but does not trust him as he trusts in himself, a serious mistake is being made and what true friendship means is not understood.
71-Beyond all things, there is the sea.
72-It's not that we do not dare to do something because it's difficult, it's because we do not dare to try for what they are difficult.
73-It is quality, more than quantity, that matters.
As long as destiny permits, live happily; Life advances with a hurried pace, and with the winged days the wheel of the year spins rapidly.
"We are not so angry once we stop being so hopeful.
76-Every day acquire something that strengthens you against poverty, against death, and against other misfortunes.
77. Our vices will abort themselves if they are brought every day to the despicable.
78. Men whose spirit has become arrogant because they have the great favor of fortune, have this grave fault: they hate those who have also hurt.
"The part of life we really live in is small. Because the rest of existence is not life, but time.
80-Make sure of one thing before the day of your death arrives, that your faults die before you.
81-Live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your fragility enters your head, how much time has passed you no longer care.
No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity.
83. The final hour in which we cease to exist does not bring death; Simply completes the process of death. We got to death at the time, but we've been a long time on the road.
84-Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
85-What man can you show me that he puts some value in his time, that he counts the value of each day, that he understands that he is dying every day?
86. Nothing is heavy if it is taken lightly, and nothing needs to arouse one's irritation, as long as one does not make it larger than it is by becoming irritated.
"Of course, it is better to know useless things than to know nothing.
88-Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for the crisis.
89-You must live in such a way that there is nothing that you can not easily say to your enemy, in a simple way as if you told yourself.
90-When a person spends all his time traveling abroad, he ends up having a lot of acquaintances, but he has no friends.
"It is more civilized to make fun of life than to mourn it.
92. Light feathers are loquacious, but great ones are stupid.
93-Set aside all obstacles and give up your time to reach a healthy mind.
"If we could be satisfied with something, we should have been satisfied long ago."
95-Brave men rejoice in adversity, as brave soldiers triumph in war.
96. Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present and fear the future.
97-What can happen at any time can happen today.
-What really ruins our character is the fact that none of us looks back to review his life.
"Drunkenness is nothing more than voluntary madness.
100-Philosophy demands a simple life, not to do penance, and the simple way of living does not have to be crude.
101-All things seem unbearable to people who have become pampered, who have become soft through a life of luxury, are more sick in the mind than in the body.
We are members of a great body, planted by nature. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.
"As far as I'm concerned, I know that I have not lost wealth but distractions. The needs of the body are few: it wants to be free of the cold, banish hunger and thirst with food. If we want something else, we are striving to serve our vices, not our needs.
104-There is no enjoyment in the possession of anything valuable unless you have someone to share it with.
"It is not that we have little time, it is that we waste a lot.
"Nothing, in my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop right where he is and spend some time in his own company.
To win true freedom you must be a slave to philosophy.
108. Loyalty bought with money can be destroyed by money itself.
109-For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their problems, it only changes them.
110-It is a very great thing to know the season for the speech and the season for silence.
111-A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm gets compliments, but when her total appearance diverts the admiration of the individual parts of her body.
"What fortune has made of you does not belong to you.
113-Many discoveries are reserved for ages yet to come, when the memory of us has been blotted out.
We are wrong when we expect death. Most of the death has already passed, whatever the year we have left behind, has already been in the hands of death.
Men do not care to live nobly, but only for how long will they live. Although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, and far from anyone's power to live for long.
116-You ask yourself what is the appropriate limit for a person's wealth. First, to have the essential, and second, to have what is sufficient.
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. Because he is not allowed to prove himself.
118-As we wait for life, life passes.