Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

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.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

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 find.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

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