Seneca Adversity Quotes

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

- Seneca

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

- Seneca

Light troubles speak, The weighty are struck dumb.

- Seneca

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

- Seneca

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

- Seneca

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

- Seneca

Light troubles speak, The weighty are struck dumb.

- Seneca

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future

- Seneca

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

- Seneca

Life, if well lived, is long enough

- Seneca

We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth.

- Seneca

What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

- Seneca

While we wait for life, Life passes

- Seneca

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

- Anonymous

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

- Herbert George Wells

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

- Publilius Syrus

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

- Harry Truman

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made

- Sophocles

To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.

- Bion

One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

- Sophocles

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

- Bible

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

- William Shakespeare

Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.

- William Shakespeare