Seneca

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

"If a man knows not what harbour he seeks, any wind is the right wind."

"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough."

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

"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."

"To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading."

"Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune."

"He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes."

"All cruelty springs from weakness."

"No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline."

"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."

"There is no genius free from some tincture of madness."

"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers."

"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God."

"A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts."

"That grief is light which can take counsel."

"Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself."

"To wish to be well is a part of becoming well."

"No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it."

"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."

"If you wished to be loved, love."

"Malice drinks one half of its own poison."

"A great mind becomes a great fortune."

"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism."

"He who has great power should use it lightly."

"Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers."

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."

"Time heals what reason cannot."

"Time discovers truth."

"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."

"It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence."

"The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success." - De Tranquillitate Animi

"There is no great genius without some touch of madness." - De Tranquillitate Animi

"Those whom fortune has never favoured are more joyful than those whom she has deserted." - De Tranquillitate Animi

"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness." - Epistulae ad Lucilium

"This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly." - Epistulae ad Lucilium

"Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling." - Epistulae ad Lucilium

"There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality." - Epistulae ad Lucilium

"He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another." - Hercules Furens

"The hour which gives us life begins to take it away." - Hercules Furens

"To greed, all nature is insufficient." - Hercules Oetaeus

"Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it." - Phoenissae