Seneca The Elder

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.

The sun also shines on the wicked.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

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