Philosophy Quote by Seneca — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life.”

“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”

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“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”

“The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.”

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”

“Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods!”

“Ultimately there are but three systems of ethics, three conceptions of the ideal character and the moral life.”

“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.”

“When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.”

“Abundance is not the absence of scarcity; it is the presence of abundant mentality.”

“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”