Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well... - Seneca
"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."
More quotes by Seneca
"Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis."
"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."
"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."
"Non est ad astra mollis e terris via"- "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars"