Seneca
"The greatest remedy for anger is delay." - Seneca
"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down." - Seneca
"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them." - Seneca
"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divi... - Seneca
"In war there is no prize for runner-up." - Seneca
"There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich." - Seneca
"There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of ... - Seneca
"The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable." - Seneca
"Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war." - Seneca
"We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptatio... - Seneca
"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity." - Seneca
"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." - Seneca
"Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue." - Seneca
"True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong." - Seneca
"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future." - Seneca
"Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment." - Seneca
"Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them." - Seneca
"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters." - Seneca
"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer." - Seneca
"He that does good to another does good also to himself." - Seneca
"What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat." - Seneca
"Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters." - Seneca
"Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in def... - Seneca
"Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them." - Seneca
"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friend... - Seneca
"Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't... - Seneca
"Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it." - Seneca
"There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse." - Seneca
"The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns." - Seneca
"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." - Seneca
"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk." - Seneca
"Love in its essence is spiritual fire." - Seneca
"May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense." - Seneca
"It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult." - Seneca