Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no great genius without some touch of madness…

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

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of…

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail…

Love in its essence is spiritual fire…

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good…

We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from…

While we are postponing, life speeds by…

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has…

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas…

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money…

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

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those…

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not…

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