Seneca

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

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

"True happiness is to enjoy your present possessions without anxiety about the future."

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

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

"Such a man can lose nothing, for he holds all things lightly."

"You will die—yes, you too will die."

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

"No one can live happily who looks only to himself."

"The time will never 'be just right.' Start where you stand."

"Retirement does not remove a man from the world."

"Life is not about having good days. It's about appreciating the ones you have."

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

"The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires."

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

"There is no greater wealth than a healthy body and a peaceful mind."

"You have within you every capacity you need; use them."

"Do not despise a reputation once lost."

"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

"The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable."

"Receive without pride, let go without attachment."

"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire."

"The man who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive."

"If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person."

"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."

"You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat."

"Better to lose health like a spendthrift than to lose life like a miser."

"True security is the security of the mind."

"The best ideas are common property."

"Everybody hurries his life on and suffers from a yearning for the future and a weariness of the present."