As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good i... - Seneca

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

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

"The best ideas are common property"

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

"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."