Seneca's Ancient Life Lessons Men Learn Too Late In Life — Transcript

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1. 0:00The things hardest to bear
2. 0:02are sweetest to remember.
3. 0:08We should not, like sheep,
4. 0:10follow the herd of creatures in front of
5. 0:13us,
6. 0:14making our way where others go, not
7. 0:17where we ought to go.
8. 0:23Silence is a lesson learned through
9. 0:25life's many sufferings.
10. 0:31Life is like a play.
11. 0:33It's not the length, but the excellence
12. 0:36of the acting that matters.
13. 0:41A gem cannot be polished without
14. 0:44friction, nor a man perfected without
15. 0:47trials.
16. 0:52Life is very short and anxious for those
17. 0:55who forget the past, neglect the
18. 0:57present, and fear the future.
19. 1:00Life, if well lived,
20. 1:03is long enough.
21. 1:08No evil propensity of the human heart is
22. 1:11so powerful
23. 1:12that it may not be subdued by
24. 1:15discipline.
25. 1:19Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as
26. 1:23not to injure future ones.
27. 1:29Until we have begun to go without them,
28. 1:32we fail to realize how unnecessary many
29. 1:35things are.
30. 1:38We've been using them not because we
31. 1:40needed them,
32. 1:41but because we had them.
33. 1:47A man who suffers before it is necessary
34. 1:50suffers more than is necessary.
35. 1:57To be everywhere
36. 1:59is to be nowhere.
37. 2:03What really ruins our character is the
38. 2:06fact that none of us looks back over his
39. 2:10life.
40. 2:14Anger, if not restrained,
41. 2:17is frequently more hurtful to us than
42. 2:19the injury that provokes it.
43. 2:24Only time can heal what reason cannot.
44. 2:31To bear trials with a calm mind robs
45. 2:34misfortune of its strength and burden.
46. 2:40Our plans miscarry because they have no
47. 2:43aim.
48. 2:44When a man does not know what harbor he
49. 2:46is making for,
50. 2:48no wind is the favorable wind.
51. 2:55Most powerful is he who has himself in
52. 2:58his own power.
53. 3:03Be wary of the man who urges an action
54. 3:06in which he himself incurs no risk.
55. 3:12True happiness is to enjoy the present
56. 3:15without anxious dependence upon the
57. 3:17future.
58. 3:18The mind that is anxious about the
59. 3:20future is miserable.
60. 3:26The greatest remedy for anger
61. 3:28is delay.
62. 3:33Luck is what happens when preparation
63. 3:35meets opportunity.
64. 3:40To be always fortunate and to pass
65. 3:42through life with a soul that has never
66. 3:44known sorrow
67. 3:46is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
68. 3:53All cruelty springs from weakness.
69. 3:59The bravest sight in the world is to see
70. 4:02a great man struggling against
71. 4:04adversity.
72. 4:09While we are postponing,
73. 4:11life speeds by.
74. 4:16We are more often frightened than hurt,
75. 4:18and we suffer more from imagination than
76. 4:21from reality.
77. 4:25It is a rough road that leads to the
78. 4:27heights of greatness.
79. 4:32It is not the man who has too little,
80. 4:36but the man who craves more that is
81. 4:38poor.
82. 4:42You act like mortals in all that you
83. 4:44fear,
84. 4:46and like immortals in all that you
85. 4:48desire.
86. 4:52Sometimes even to live is an act of
87. 4:55courage.
88. 4:59It is the power of the mind to be
89. 5:01unconquerable.
90. 5:06The life we receive is not short,
91. 5:09but we make it so.
92. 5:11We are not ill-provided, but use what we
93. 5:13have wastefully.
94. 5:18Begin at once to live, and count each
95. 5:21separate day as a separate life.
96. 5:27He who is brave
97. 5:30is free.
98. 5:34Associate with people who are likely to
99. 5:36improve you.
100. 5:41Every new beginning comes from some
101. 5:43other beginning's end.
102. 5:48Religion is regarded by the common
103. 5:51people as true,
104. 5:53by the wise as false,
105. 5:55and by rulers as useful.
106. 6:01We learn not in school,
107. 6:04but in life.
108. 6:09Nothing is more honorable than a
109. 6:11grateful heart.
110. 6:16To wish to be well is a part of becoming
111. 6:19well.
112. 6:23He who has injured thee was either
113. 6:26stronger or weaker than thee.
114. 6:29If weaker, spare him.
115. 6:31If stronger,
116. 6:33spare thyself.
117. 6:37What can happen at any time can happen
118. 6:40today.
119. 6:45The part of life we really live is
120. 6:46small, for all the rest of existence is
121. 6:49not life, but merely time.
122. 6:56No man was ever wise by chance.
123. 7:02There is no enjoying the possession of
124. 7:04anything valuable
125. 7:06unless one has someone to share it with.
126. 7:12You are lonely not because no one needs
127. 7:15you,
128. 7:15but because you care about who is next
129. 7:18to you.
130. 7:22Don't let yourself be controlled by
131. 7:24three things:
132. 7:26people,
133. 7:27money,
134. 7:28or past experience.
135. 7:33If we could be satisfied with anything,
136. 7:37we should have been satisfied long ago.
137. 7:43Often,
138. 7:45a very old man has no other proof of his
139. 7:47long life than his age.
140. 7:52Of this one thing
141. 7:55make sure against your dying day
142. 7:58that your faults die before you do.
143. 8:04The greatest blessings of mankind are
144. 8:06within us and within our reach.
145. 8:10A wise man is content with his lot,
146. 8:12whatever it may be
147. 8:14without wishing for what he has not.
148. 8:20Ignorance is the cause of fear.
149. 8:26When a person spends all of his time in
150. 8:28foreign travel
151. 8:30he ends by having many acquaintances,
152. 8:33but no friends.