Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

Seneca The Elder's Popular Quotes

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

- Seneca The Elder

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

- Seneca The Elder

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

- Seneca The Elder

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

- Seneca The Elder

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

- Seneca The Elder

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

- Seneca The Elder

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

- Seneca The Elder

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

- Seneca The Elder

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

- Seneca The Elder