Seneca The Younger

The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you.

The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.

My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.

As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.