Seneca

"It is precisely in times of immunity from care that the soul should toughen itself."

"The universe has already secured freedom for you, if you are willing to use it."

"Calamity reveals those who are not truly friends."

"Invest in yourself and never stop improving."

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

"You will never live long enough to bring your body to perfect health and strength."

"No one can be content with his lot unless he is willing to move from it."

"The best measure of a person is how they treat someone who can do them absolutely no good."

"Such is the condition of mankind that nowhere can we live in perfect peace."

"Learn to wish that everything should happen as it does."

"The greatest honor to a man is in service to his fellow man."

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

"Misfortune nobly borne is good fortune."

"The great consolation in life is to say what you think."

"No man was ever wise by chance."

"A man is not poor if the little which remains is enough."

"The soul is never voluntarily deprived of virtue."

"Nature has given you the gift of choice, but not freedom from choice."

"Confine yourself to the present day."

"The man who allows himself to be ashamed of his poverty is poor indeed."

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."

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

"The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires."

"Life is long if you know how to use it."

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

"We suffer more in imagination than in reality."

"You will derive the greatest delight from surrender to duty."

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

"Confusion and perplexity are the first steps to philosophy."