Charles Van Doren happy Quotes


Life, if well lived, is long enough. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Enough 234
You learn to know a pilot in a storm. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Learn 185
To greed, all nature is insufficient. - Hercules Oetaeus Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger ) 162
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Being 131
God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )All 110
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Adversity 106
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Beyond 101
The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Bear 100
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Crime 95
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Difference 95
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Luck 92
True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Comes 91
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 ( The Younger )Dare 86
The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Follows 86
The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Heart 85
Every reign must submit to a greater reign. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Greater 83
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Happy 81
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Arms 75
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Belief 75
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Care 75
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 ( The Younger )Bad 73
In war there is no prize for runner-up. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Prize 72
As long as you live, keep learning how to live. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Learning 70
The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger ) 68
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Act 68
Time discovers truth. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Discovers 68
Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Another 67
We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Abate 66
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )All 63
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Angry 61
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Founded 61
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Difficulty 60
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Sympathy 58
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Called 55
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Advice 54
Every sin is the result of a collaboration. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Collaboration 53
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Bad 53
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Enjoys 51
There is no great genius without some touch of madness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Genius 51
What is true belongs to me! Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )True 50
Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Corrupted 50
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Called 47
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Cast 40
One must steer, not talk. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Steer 39
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Anticipation 35
The best ideas are common property. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger ) 33
Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Dumb 32
A great mind becomes a great fortune. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Becomes 28

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