truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 11 January 2007 9:00 am

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 11 January 2007 9:03 am

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 11 January 2007 9:05 am

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 11 January 2007 9:08 am

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

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 11 January 2007 9:10 am

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 11 January 2007 9:29 am

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 11 January 2007 9:29 am

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca