Seneca The Younger

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

Everything hangs on one's thinking.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.

Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est._x000D_ _x000D_ The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.