Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.”

“Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.”

“You learn to know a pilot in a storm.”

“A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.”

“True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”

“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”

“We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.”

“See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.”

“Time discovers truth.”

“Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.”

“It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.”

“So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.”

“There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.”

“Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.”

“The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.”

“Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.”

“The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.”

“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.”

“The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.”

“Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.”