Seneca The Younger

It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.

Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

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

An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.

The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.