Seneca

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

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

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

"True happiness is to enjoy your possessions without guilt."

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

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

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

"The greatest wealth is health."

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

"Losing all hope was freedom."

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."

"The obstacle is the way."

"To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself."

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

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

"The mind is everything. What we think we become."

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

"Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things."

"Nowhere is he who is everywhere."

"Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all wants and suffering."

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

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing and that is the true sign of culture."

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

"Reduce your wants now, and there will be less to take away from you."

"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."

"The man who is wisest is the one who fewest things need."

"Silence is sometimes the severest criticism."

"Say what you mean and do what you say."