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| Seneca the Younger
A great fortune is a great slavery. A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration. Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones. Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress? Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant. Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power. He who injured you was either stronger or weaker. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare yourself. If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. If you would judge, understand. It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. 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 has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess. Life is warfare. No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated. No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself. Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly. Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue? Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned. That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty. The greatest remedy for anger is delay. The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances. There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy. There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich. There is no delight in owning anything unshared. To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power. We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember. What were once vices are the fashion of the day. Where the fear is, happiness is not. Whom they have injured they also hate. |
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