He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.

Alternate: He who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Things That Were Hard To Bear Are Sweet To Remember.

Source: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Hercules Furens (The Madness of Hercules), lines 656-657; (Amphitryon).

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

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It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius) by Lucius Annaeus Seneca; Letter LXXXVIII: On liberal and vocational studies, line 45.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Source: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Thyestes, CCXIV.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.

Source: Seneca the Younger, Thyestes, CCXIV. Original Quote in Latin: Ubicumque homo est, ibi beneficio locus est.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.