Seneca the Younger

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”

“Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.”

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

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”

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

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”

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

“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”

“He who is brave is free.”

“While we wait for life, life passes.”

“All cruelty springs from weakness.”

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”

“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”

“The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”

“To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”

“No man was ever wise by chance.”