Seneca
Seneca
human opportunity
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
bear hardest sweetest
The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.
fear fears lighter
A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
appreciation man
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
die enraged
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
difficulty labor strengthen
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
deal difference great knowledge sin whether wills
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
man urges wary
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
great power
He who has great power should use it lightly.
The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
evil heart human powerful propensity subdued
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
people satisfies success
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
anxiety reality suffer
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.