Inspirational quotes
Seneca
Inspirational Quotes › By Teacher › Seneca
-
A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation…you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.
-
A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.
-
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
-
As it is with a play, so it is with life—what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is.
-
Away with the world's opinion of you—it's always unsettled and divided.
-
Be harsh with yourself at times.
-
"Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock."
-
"Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it—the fear of it."
-
Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.
-
Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.
