Seneca on Stoicism Quotes

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

"He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a benefit; he is ungrateful who hides it; he is ungrateful who does not return it; but most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it."

"No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity."

"Ingratitude is a disease of the soul."

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

"Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity."

"He who accepts a benefit with a good will has returned it."

"Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men."

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."

"The ungrateful man is like a sieve; everything you pour into him runs out."

"A benefit should be given with the same spirit it is received."

"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

"While we are postponing, life speeds by."

"A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand."

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."

"He who is grateful is a happy man."

"There is no vice more base than ingratitude."

"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."

"We are ungrateful for what we have because we are looking for what we do not have."

"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

"A good mind possesses a kingdom."

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."

"The person who is to be grateful must think of the benefit, not the giver."

"Truth lies open for all; it has not yet been monopolized."