Seneca The Younger

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
-Seneca the Younger

Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
-Seneca the Younger

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution.
-Seneca the Younger

Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.
-Seneca the Younger

Don’t stumble over something behind you.
– Seneca the Younger

Nothing is ours except time.
– Seneca the Younger

It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.
– Seneca the Younger

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
– Seneca the Younger

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
– Seneca the Younger

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
– Seneca the Younger