Seneca the Elder

“All fools suffer the burden of dissatisfaction with themselves.”

“To be everywhere; is to nowhere.”

“To be everywhere, is to be no where at all”

“Iniquum est collapsis manum non porrigere: commune hoc ius generis humani est"(It is wrong not to stretch out your hand to the fallen: that is a common law of the human race)”

“When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?”

“to be everywhere is to be nowhere”

“It is of course better to know useless things than to know nothing.”

“Doubt not without hoping, hope not without doubting (free after Seneca)”