Seneca The Younger

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.

He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly.

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Virtue is nothing else than right reason

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.