Seneca

"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all invested in good works."

"Wealth is the test of a man's character."

"No one can live happily who looks only to himself and turns everything to his own advantage."

"True happiness is to enjoy your time without anxiety."

"Nowhere is safe to him for whom the whole world is unsafe."

"Man is affected not by things, but by the views he takes of them."

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

"The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires."

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"Even if it is late, still let him come."

"A man of wisdom empties his mind at night."

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

"While we wait for life, life passes."

"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."

"Before you say an unkind word – think of someone who can't speak."

"It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but he whose desires exceed his means."

"Long is the way and hard that out of hell leads up to light."

"He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich."

"Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so tomorrow."

"True freedom is being free from the things we don't need."

"Health is a relative thing. There is no man so ill but he might hope that he shall never be worse; and that hope itself is half a cure."

"The path to glory is always rugged."

"Leisure without study is death."

"No one can rob you of your free will."

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."

"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel a responsibility for the actions of those fibers."

"Withdraw into yourself, as much as you can. Associate with people who are likely to improve you."

"A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors; but he cannot go to heaven without virtue."

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