Seneca

"All cruelty springs from weakness."

"Be kind to your enemies; you have nothing to lose but your enmity."

"Begin to live before you cease to exist."

"But if one has not even a friend, one at least has a book."

"Calamities are the tests of integrity."

"Change is the only constant in life."

"Competence without grace is torture."

"Confusion is the wellness of the fool."

"Consider thyself to be dead, and review your life. See how little you have really wanted."

"Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the conquest of it."

"Everybody hurries through life as if they're trying to get somewhere else."

"Events that are predestined require no anger."

"Grief is the price we pay for love."

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the acts which provoke it."

"I begin to love this little world because it contains you."

"If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable."

"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."

"It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself."

"It is not the fear of death that haunts our sleep so much as the fear of life."

"Just as it is madness to hate all mankind because you dislike a few, it is also madness to love all mankind because you love a few."

"Keep reading books. Keep yourself updated. A reader lives a thousand lives."

"Knowledge does not come to us by chance, it is acquired by keen desire and constant application."

"Let us rise up and be thankful."

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

"Light a fire within yourself."

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever."

"No one despises the man he fears."

"Of all the things that are, the being is the most excellent."

"One of the most beautiful passages in life is when you come to the realization that you are wiser, more mature, and more at peace than you were before."

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."