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Inner strength4 quotes
Be like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly: but it stands fast and around it the seething of the waters sinks to rest. — Marcus Aurelius · 180It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable. — Seneca · 58Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. — Marcus Aurelius · 180For he that is fallen low did never firmly stand. — Boethius · 523Free will3 quotes
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable. — Seneca · 58Whatever befalls you was prepared for you beforehand from eternity, and the thread of causes was spinning from everlasting both your existence and this which befalls you. — Marcus Aurelius · 180What place can be left for random action, when God constraineth all things to order? — Boethius · 523Life3 quotes
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, for it requires that we should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Life is long if you know how to use it. — Seneca · 49Remember that no man loses other life than that which he lives, nor lives other than that which he loses. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Adaptability2 quotes
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, for it requires that we should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected. — Marcus Aurelius · 180A great step towards independence is a good humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca · 65Adversity2 quotes
A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent. — Seneca · 65Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. — Seneca · 64Character2 quotes
For he that is fallen low did never firmly stand. — Boethius · 523You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. — Seneca · 65Circle of life2 quotes
Time is a violent torrent; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Happiness2 quotes
Who hath so entire happiness that he is not in some part offended with the condition of his estate? — Boethius · 524Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content. — Boethius · 523Length of life2 quotes
The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same things. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long. — Seneca · 65Life and death2 quotes
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. — Seneca · 65Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out. — Seneca · 65Living well2 quotes
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, for it requires that we should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Life is long if you know how to use it. — Seneca · 49Love2 quotes
O happy race of mortals, if your hearts are ruled, as is the universe, by Love! — Boethius · 523It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Materialism2 quotes
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. — Seneca · 65No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have. — Seneca · 65Overcoming adversity2 quotes
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable. — Seneca · 58A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent. — Seneca · 65Solitude2 quotes
Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Nothing to my way of thinking is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in their own company. — Seneca · 65The human condition2 quotes
As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion. — Marcus Aurelius · 180I was shipwrecked before I got on board. — Seneca · 65Time2 quotes
Every instant of time is a pinprick of eternity. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Time is a violent torrent; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Acquisitiveness1 quote
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. — Seneca · 65Aimlessness1 quote
If a person knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. — Seneca · 65Animism1 quote
Is the dwelling place of God anywhere but in the earth and sea, the air and sky, and virtue? Why seek we further for deities? Whatever you see, whatever you touch, that is Jupiter. — Lucan · 65Anti-war1 quote
We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples? — Seneca · 65Art1 quote
All art is but imitation of nature. — Seneca · 65Attachment (Buddhism)1 quote
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. — Seneca · 65Birth1 quote
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. — Seneca · 65Body and soul1 quote
’Tis very dishonourable in life, that the soul should fail and desert its duty; while the body can hold out, and sustain its part. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Comparing oneself to others1 quote
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Compliments1 quote
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. — Seneca · 65Courage1 quote
Be like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly: but it stands fast and around it the seething of the waters sinks to rest. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Credulity1 quote
Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish. — Julius Caesar · 49 BCDeath as equalizer1 quote
The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same things. — Marcus Aurelius · 180