Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Genius always gives its best at first prudence, at last.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

All art is but imitation of nature.

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