Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.”

“What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.”

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

“Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.”

“Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.”

“It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.”

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

“Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.”

“Life is warfare.”

“If you wished to be loved, love.”