Seneca

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

People pay the doctor for his trouble for his kindness they still remain in his debt.

Two elements must therefore be rooted out once for all, the fear of future suffering, and the recollection of past suffering; since the latter no longer concerns me, and the former concerns me not yet.

One who daily puts the finishing touches on his life is never in want of time.

Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.

There is no genius without a touch of madness.

Too late is it to be on one’s guard, to exercise caution, when plunged in misfortune.

The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.

Where the fear is happiness is not.

O how many noble deeds of women are lost in obscurity!

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away but not that of having had one.

While we teach, we learn.

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

We should give as we would receive: cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

If you would wish another to keep your secret, first keep it yourself.

Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.

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

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

We should give as we would receive cheerfully quickly and without hesitation for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.

Injustice never rules forever.

When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.

Saving comes too late when you get to the bottom.

There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves but the humor goes round and he that laughs at me to day will have somebody to laugh at him to morrow.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

He who is sorry for having sinned is almost innocent.

Life is neither a good nor an evil it is a field for good and evil

Mercy often inflicts death.

We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.

A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

He whose daily life has been a rounded whole is easy in his mind.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Even journey has an end.

The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.

All your sorrows have been wasted on you if you have not yet learned how to be wretched.

While we wait for life, life passes.

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.

If we let things terrify us life will not be worth living.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

No possession is gratifying without a companion.

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

The wise man is neither raised up by prosperity nor cast down by adversity; for always he has striven to rely predominantly on himself, and to derive all joy from himself.

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.

Men learn while they teach.

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

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it but when it becomes chronic it is ridiculed and rightly.

Many men will meet me who are drunkards, lustful, ungrateful, greedy, and excited by the frenzy of ambition.

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

To be everywhere is to be nowhere.

Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness.

It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.

There is never a time when new distraction will not show up we sow them so several will grow from the same seed.

Fire tests gold suffering tests brave men.

All this hurrying from place to place won’t bring you any relief, for you’re travelling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

No one can have all he wants but a man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

This life is only a prelude to eternity.

The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

To expect punishment is to suffer it; and to earn it is to expect it.

You want to live – but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying – and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.

You are your choices.

If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end.

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

Life is long if you know how to live it.

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

It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it.

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

He who indulges in empty fears earns himself real fears.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.