Quote of Seneca - A happy life, therefore, is one...

Biography - Seneca:

Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman (Approximate years of birth and death).
Born: -4 - Died: 65
Period:
1st century
1st century BC
Place of birth: Spain
Spain

Quote

A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.”
Seneca - De Vita Beata

Translation

(French, German)

La vie heureuse, c'est donc celle qui est en accord avec sa propre nature.”
Sénèque - De la vie heureuse

Glückselig also ist ein Leben, welches mit seiner Natur in Einklang steht.”
Seneca - Vom glückseligen Leben

Quotes about life:

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

Man arrives a novice at every age of life.”
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
Mahatma Gandhi

life

To live means to love, but above all, to love life.”
Blanche Pierson

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
Mark Twain - Quotation of uncertain origin

My life is my message.”
Mahatma Gandhi

life

All about life...

Quotes about happiness:

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.”
Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet

Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.”
Victor Hugo - Les deux trouvailles de Gallus

To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.”
Gaston Bachelard - La Psychanalyse du feu

Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove.”
Jeremy Bentham

happiness

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
Epicurus

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.”
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères

All about happiness...

Quotes about oneself:

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde - Quotation of uncertain origin

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”
Carl Gustav Jung

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.”
Katherine Mansfield

All about oneself...

Seneca also said...

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

wind

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.”
Seneca

A great part of progress consists in the desire to make progress.”
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

The language of truth is simple.”
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

All that is mine I carry with me.”
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

good

Time reveals the truth.”
Seneca

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