Seneca

"Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."

"Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."

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

"Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures."

"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. 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."

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis."

"Non est ad astra mollis e terris via"- "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars"

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

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. 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."

"The best ideas are common property"

"No man was ever wise by chance"

"The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way."

"Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company."

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

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