Seneca

“To grow old learning is the only fitting work for a free man.”

“It is the mind that ennobles a man.”

“You ask whether you should pray for those who hate you. — No. Pray for yourself, that you may not hate them.”

“He who hath, while living, prepared himself for death, hath conquered death.”

“Be wary of him who calls every passing impression his settled judgment.”

“What progress have I made? I am beginning to be a friend to myself.”

“That is great progress — that man will never be alone.”

“Know that such a man is a friend to all mankind.”

“You can build no walls high enough to shut out fortune.”

“Settle yourself, then, where you will pass the day in repose.”

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”

“True friendship is not bought with gifts but earned with virtue.”

“He suffers more than necessary who suffers before it is necessary.”

“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”

“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”

“He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive.”

“You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.”

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”