Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. - Seneca

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

"No man was ever wise by chance"

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

"Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures."

"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."