"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."

"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned."

"No man was ever wise by chance."

"There is no great genius without some touch of madness."

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

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

"If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable."

"The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back."

"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."

"Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember."

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."

"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"

"All cruelty springs from weakness."

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality"

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful."

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

"You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire"

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

"If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable."

"Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older."

"It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable."

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

"The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced."

"It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully."

"If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person."

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

"Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them."

"He who is brave is free"

"What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears."

"No man was ever wise by chance"

"They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn."

"Associate with people who are likely to improve you."

"He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary."

"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good."

"Only time can heal what reason cannot."

"Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune's control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately."

"If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich."

"Timendi causa est nescire"

"I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land."

"Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal."

"You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last."

"It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have."

"Limiting one’s desires actually helps to cure one of fear. ‘Cease to hope … and you will cease to fear.’ … Widely different [as fear and hope] are, the two of them march in unison like a prisoner and the escort he is handcuffed to. Fear keeps pace with hope … both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present."

"It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example."

"It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult."

"He who spares the wicked injures the good."

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

"You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself."

"Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated."

"It is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it."

"To be everywhere is to be nowhere."

"Whatever can happen at any time can happen today."

"He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself."

"The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable."

"If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail upon a sea where shipwrecks are a common occurrence and there are often sudden storms that sweep the helmsman in an adverse direction, I conclude that this man, although he lauds navigation, really forbids me to launch my ship."

"To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy."

"Of this one thing make sure against your dying day - that your faults die before you do."

"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."

"The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time."

"What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself."

"There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with"

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"Beyond all things is the sea"

"No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity"

"To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature."

"The best ideas are common property"

"True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient."

"As far as I am concerned, I know that I have lost not wealth but distractions. The body’s needs are few: it wants to be free from cold, to banish hunger and thirst with nourishment; if we long for anything more we are exerting ourselves to serve our vices, not our needs."

"It is quality rather than quantity that matters."

"But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship."

"It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and -what will perhaps make you wonder more - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die."

"What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water?"

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

"we cease to be so angry once we cease to be so hopeful"

"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them"

"Everyone prefers belief to the exercise of judgement."

"The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them."

"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, bu"

"If we could be satisfied with anything, we should have been satisfied long ago."

"Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb."

"The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence."

"Can anything be more idiotic than certain people who boast of their foresight? They keep themselves officiously preoccupied in order to improve their lives; they spend their lives in organizing their lives. They direct their purposes with an eye to a distant future. But putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining?"

"Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs."

"What really ruins our character is the fact that none of us looks back over his life."

"Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros"

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

"And this, too, affords no small occasion for anxieties - if you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life that is all made up for show; for it is torturous to be constantly watching oneself and be fearful of being caught out of our usual role. And we are never free from concern if we think that every time anyone looks at us he is always taking-our measure; for many things happen that strip off our pretence against our will, and, though all this attention to self is successful, yet the life of those who live under a mask cannot be happy and without anxiety. But how much pleasure there is in simplicity that is pure, in itself unadorned, and veils no part of its character!{PlainDealer+} Yet even such a life as this does run some risk of scorn, if everything lies open to everybody; for there are those who disdain whatever has become too familiar. But neither does virtue run any risk of being despised when she is brought close to the eyes, and it is better to be scorned by reason of simplicity than tortured by perpetual pretence."

"There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

"Gold tests with fire, woman with gold, man with woman"

"We must go for walks out of doors, so that the mind can be strengthened and invigorated by a clear sky and plenty of fresh air. At times it will acquire fresh energy from a journey by carriage and a change of scene, or from socializing and drinking freely. Occasionally we should even come to the point of intoxication, sinking into drink but not being totally flooded by it; for it does wash away cares, and stirs the mind to its depths, and heals sorrow just as it heals certain diseases."

"Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one."

"When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."

"It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it."

"It is of course better to know useless things than to know nothing."

"What fortune has made yours is not your own."

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

"I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind"

"A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor."

"Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant."

"Everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things, since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn."

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

"Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart."

"Regard a friend as loyal, and you will make him loyal."

"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."

"We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth."

"To err is human, but to persist in the mistake is diabolical."

"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality."

"No man can be sane who searches for what will injure him in place of what is best."

"Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We’ve been using them not because we needed them but because we had them."

"There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with."

"You ask what is the proper limit to a person’s wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough."

"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones."

"The body’s needs are few: it wants to be free from cold, to banish hunger and thirst with nourishment; if we long for anything more we are exerting ourselves to serve our vices, not our needs."

"In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases."

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

"Ignorance is the cause of fear."

"Of this one thing make sure against your dying day – that your faults die before you do."

"You should live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself."

"A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys."

"Men whose spirit has grown arrogant from the great favor of fortune have this most serious fault — those whom they have injured they also hate."

"One hand washes the other."

"Life is long, if you know how to use it."

"There is no easy way from the earth to the stars."

"Hurry up and live."

"Cease to hope and you will cease to fear."

"Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach."

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end."

"It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence."

"Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding."

"We learn not in the school, but in life."

"Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day."

"What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water."

"If you wish to be loved; Love!"

"Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war."

"Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honorable."

"Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men."

"There is no genius without a touch of madness."

"Wealth is the slave of a wise man and the master of a fool."

"While we wait for life, life passes."

"An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them. In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing."

"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."

"Gold tests with fire, woman with gold, man with woman."

"We are members of one great body, planted by nature. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole."

"The great blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it."

"I will storm the gods, and shake the universe."

"Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future."

"To win true freedom you must be a slave to philosophy."

"While we are postponing, life speeds by."

"We are mad, not only individually but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders, but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?"

"Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor."

"A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature."

"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."

"Life, if well lived, is long enough."

"The sun also shines on the wicked."

"So you must match time’s swiftness with your speed in using it, and you must drink quickly as though from a rapid stream that will not always flow."

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

"Wild animals run from the dangers they actually see, and once they have escaped them worry no more. We however are tormented alike by what is past and what is to come. A number of our blessings do us harm, for memory brings back the agony of fear while foresight brings it on prematurely. No one confines his unhappiness to the present."

"The part of life we really live is small. For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time."

"How many are quite unworthy to see the light, and yet the day dawns."

"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness."

"Love in its essence is spiritual fire."

"Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life."

"Love in its essence is spiritual fire. Lucius Annaeus"

"Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms ― you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older."

"Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy."

"Men do not care how nobly they live, but only for how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long."

"He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a living man."

"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."

"The abundance of books is distraction."

"We are more often frightened than hurt, and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

"He who is brave is free."

"Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death."

"Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands."

"Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse."

"The mind that is anxious about future events is mis"

"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."

"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."

"As long as you live, keep learning how t"

"For greed all nature is too little."

"Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged."

"Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds."

"To wish to be well is a part of becoming well."

"You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire."

"He that does good to another does good also to himself."

"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer."

"No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity."

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."

"We cease to be so angry once we cease to be so hopeful."

"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity."

"Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age."

"It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult."

"There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse."

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

"A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand."

"People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy."

"It does not matter how many books you have, but how good are the books which you have."

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

"The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what is in Fortune’s control and abandoning what lies in yours."

"It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and ― what will perhaps make you wonder more ― it takes the whole of life to learn how to die."

"Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one’s irritation so long as one doesn’t make it bigger than it is by getting irritated."

"The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it."

"The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject. This knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them… Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced."

"To expect punishment is to suffer it; and to earn it is to expect it."

"It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. We are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not Ill-supplied but wasteful of it."

"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them."