Seneca The Younger

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

While we wait for life, life passes

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company

It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.

Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.

Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.

What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!

While crime is punished it yet increases.

Fear drives the wretched to prayer

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

Resistance to oppression is second nature.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.