Seneca's Wisdom
28 quotes on time, wealth, and the good life
"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."
Time"We suffer more in imagination than in reality."
Anxiety"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
Success"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."
Resilience"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."
Presence"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
Courage"Wealth is the slave of a wise man and the master of a fool."
Wealth"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."
Living"If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you need is not to be in a different place but to be a different person."
Self-improvement"No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don't have."
Contentment