Quotes from Marcus Annaeus Seneca

When in fear it is safest to force the attack.

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile endure awhile believe always and never turn back.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

The great soul surrenders itself to fate.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

It is not death we fear, but the thought of it.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.

Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Courage leads starward, fear toward death.

Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.

What must be, shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.

What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.

It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.

Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.

One should count each day a separate life.