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Quotes by Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

The great soul surrenders itself to fate.

What must be shall be and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing.

Brave men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Fire is the test of gold adversity of strong men.

The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

If we let things terrify us life will not be worth living.

It is not death we fear but the thought of it.

Fortune reveres the brave and overwhelms the cowardly.

For many men the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles it only changes them.

No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Courage leads starward fear toward death.

Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.

What must be shall be and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing.

There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?