Seneca

"Questioning is the path to wisdom."

"Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself."

"Revenge is but a poor remedy for wounds."

"Say 'no' to almost everything so that you can say 'yes' to the few things that matter."

"Set aside a certain number of days every month for going over your accounts and examining your mind."

"Spend all your time in thought, and you will be poor in deeds."

"The greatest wealth is health."

"The greatest wealth is wellness of mind."

"The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable; one who is able to resist the pull of external things will live peacefully."

"The more you own, the more it owns you."

"The only thing that can stop you is you, and you've got to make a decision that this is your time."

"There is no greater cause for fear of poverty than contempt of it."

"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly."

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

"True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture."

"We are dying every day, let's try to die with a clean consciousness."

"We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? How am I improved? Was I better?"

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants and a contented mind."

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

"The greatest wealth is health."

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

"Anger is a short madness."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."