Seneca

"Everybody agrees that no one thing can be well done by a man who is preoccupied."

"For a man is as wretched as he has convinced himself he is."

"He robs present ills of their power who believes that poverty is an evil."

"It is precisely in times when you are forcibly prevented from working that you ought to seize the opportunity to improve yourself by study."

"Lay aside that greatness which burdens you, and retire into humility."

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

"It is not events that disturb the people, it is only the view which they take of them."

"Luck is where preparation and opportunity meet."

"Making money is a hobby that complements any other hobbies you might have."

"Not that the evils of life have been cured, but that our sense of them has become numbed and callous."

"Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age."

"Prefer the company of the poor but honest than the rich but wicked."

"Riches serve a wise man but command a fool."

"Silence is sometimes the severest criticism."

"Some people are born slaves, others become slaves by their circumstances, and still others enslave themselves."

"Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow."

"Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose."

"The corrupt man will never believe that anyone else is honest."

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

"There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance."

"True friendship is impossible where there is jealousy or distrust."

"What is discipline without freedom? Slavery."

"What is feared, it is not something in the future that must be feared, but we should fear the present."

"When you go to bed, leave your troubles at the door. Do not take them to bed with you."

"Who is a wise man? One who is aware of his own limitations."

"Wild horses couldn't drag me away from you."

"Without health, life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering."

"Work as if you are living in the early days of a better nation."

"You will suffer more in imagination than in reality."

"A joyful life is an individual matter. What one person finds boring, another finds fascinating."