Seneca

“Recall each night the day's actions; let them stand before the soul's tribunal.”

“Nothing is more useful than this practice.”

“The greatest portion of peace is given to him who lives by the rule of the wise.”

“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”

“To grow old learning is the only fitting work for a free man.”

“It is the mind that ennobles a man.”

“You ask whether you should pray for those who hate you. — No. Pray for yourself, that you may not hate them.”

“He who hath, while living, prepared himself for death, hath conquered death.”

“Be wary of him who calls every passing impression his settled judgment.”

“What progress have I made? I am beginning to be a friend to myself.”

“That is great progress — that man will never be alone.”

“Know that such a man is a friend to all mankind.”

“You can build no walls high enough to shut out fortune.”

“Settle yourself, then, where you will pass the day in repose.”

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

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

“True friendship is not bought with gifts but earned with virtue.”

“He suffers more than necessary who suffers before it is necessary.”

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