Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.”

“Maximum remedium est irae mora.”

“errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.”

“It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.”

“The sun also shines on the wicked.”

“Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear.”

“Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.”

“An unpopular rule is never long maintained.”

“We are indeed apt to ascribe certain faults to the place or to the time; but those faults will follow us, no matter how we change our place.”

“Although the sum and substance of the happy life is unalloyed freedom from care, and though the secret of such freedom is unshaken confidence... men gather together that which causes worry.”

“It is our conscience, not our pride, that has put doorkeepers at our doors.”

“No past life has been lived to lend us glory, and that which has existed before us is not ours.”

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”

“Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.”

“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it?A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys.”

“You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire”

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