Seneca

"Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall."

"The capacity to endure hardship is not determined by the hardship itself but by our attitude toward it."

"Nowhere is the man who flees from himself."

"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so."

"The beauty of existence is that it changes; if it didn't, it would be death."

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

"What is evil? Anything that springs from weakness."

"There is no greater wealth than a healthy body and a simple life."

"The doors of a prison hinge inwards as well as outwards: they can lock in the prisoner as well as lock out the free man."

"We are often willing to die, but we are not willing to live for our purpose."

"Wisdom does not come alone to those who seek it reluctantly."

"The mind that is anxious about trivial things cannot attend to matters of importance."

"A man may go broke, but a noble nature cannot be bought."

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

"The greatest pleasure is to do a good deed by stealth and have it found out by accident."

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."

"To live humbly one must understand their own weakness."

"The person who says it is not possible should not interrupt the person doing it."

"Wealth and poverty are both relative to the mind that observes them."

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

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

"Friendship multiplies joys and divides griefs."

"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."

"True freedom is not the absence of structure, but the choice of what structure to accept."

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

"The body is the prison of the soul, but only if the soul allows it."

"To be everywhere is to be nowhere."

"Wealth is the test of a man's character."

"We are dying every day; it is not something that happens suddenly when we leave this earth."

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