Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.”

“Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.”

“He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.”

“A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.”

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”

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

“I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.”

“No one is laughable who laughs at himself.”

“The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.”

“It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.”

“Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.”

“We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.”

“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”

“Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.”

“To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.”

“A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.”

“A great mind becomes a great fortune.”

“Whatever is well said by another, is mine.”

“For greed all nature is too little.”

“Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.”