Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.

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

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

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

If you wished to be loved, love.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

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

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

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

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

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

Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.