Seneca the Younger Quotes

I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission.

There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

All life is a struggle in the dark.

To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.

Fulfill thy fate! Be-do-bear-and thank God.

For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

To live, is to suffer; and the honest man is always fighting to be master of his own mind.

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

GRACE: All you can do is take it.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.

We are human, and we suffer, and unlike the animals on the farm, we are self-aware, and we know that we suffer, and it doesn't hurt more or less if God caused it or could stop it, at least for me. I am definitely of the school that believes God has bigger stuff to worry about than me.

Bear calamities with meekness.

At the least bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully.

It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy.

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.

You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.

Men had taken greater blows: that was what made a man a man. For did they not say that a man is like a funeral ram which must take whatever beating comes to it without opening its mouth; that the silent tremor of pain down its body alone must tell of its suffering?

By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels.