Seneca

If you wish to be loved, love.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

Fate leads the willing and drags the unwilling.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity; for he is not permitted to prove himself.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

The mind, unless it is kept in action, grows sluggish and torpid.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

While there is life, there is hope.

Fire tests gold, suffering tests virtue.

To live is to learn how to die.

Why do we weep over fragments of life? Our whole life calls for tears.