Your mindset is your biggest asset. Famous Seneca quotes

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger, usually known as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature. Seneca was born in Cordoba in Hispania, and raised in Rome, where he was trained in rhetoric and philosophy.

1. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

2. All cruelty springs from weakness. ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

3. No man was ever wise by chance. ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

4. There is no easy way from the earth to the stars. ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

5. I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.  ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca 

6. He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary. ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

7. They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn. ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

8. We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

9. It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable. ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

10. Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca 

11. What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears. ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

12. Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We’ve been using them not because we needed them but because we had them. ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

13. If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person. ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

14. It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

15. Hang on to your youthful enthusiasm, you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older. ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca 

16. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

17. You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.  ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

18. Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

19. Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.  ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

20. True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

21. The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of such a vast subject… And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them… Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced