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

Because thou writest me often, I thank thee … Never do I receive a letter from thee, but immediately we are together.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.”— Seneca

Quam bene vivas refert, non quam diu

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

At times we ought to drink even to intoxication, not so as to drown, but merely to dip ourselves in wine, for wine washes away troubles and dislodges them from the depths of the mind...

they Whatever can make life truly happy is absolutely good in its own right because it cannot be warped into evil From whence then comes error In that while all men wish for a happy...

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...

Count your years and you’ll be ashamed to be wanting and working for exactly the same things as you wanted when you were a boy. Of this one thing make sure against your dying day...

Nūllum magnum ingenium sine mixtūrā dēmentiae fuitNo great talent without an element of madness

We are born under circumstances that would be favorable if we did not abandon them. It was nature’s intention that there should be no need of great equipment for a good life: every individual can...

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

I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I complain of in apt metaphor, I am distressed, not by a tempest, but...

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via” – “There is no easy way from the earth to the stars

Even for studies, where expenditure is most honorable, it is justifiable only so long as it is kept within bounds. What is the use of having countless books and libraries, whose titles their owners can...

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

Reason shows us there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

we deceive ourselves in thinking that death only follows life whereas it both goes before and will follow after it for where is the difference in not beginning or ceasing to exist the effect of...

Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.

Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)

A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it.

What mancan you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he isdying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death;...

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and...

Preserve a sense of proportion in your attitude to everything that pleases you, and make the most of them while they are at their best.

No man was ever wise by chance

He who is brave is free

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

To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon...

Consider the whole world reconnoitre individuals j who is there whose life is not taken up with providing for to morrow Do you ask what harm there is in this An infinite deal for such...

Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows...

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool

And do you know why we have not the power to attain this Stoic ideal? It is because we refuse to believe in our power. Nay, of a surety, there is something else which plays...

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...

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.

Nije da se ne usuđujemo zato što su stvari teške; već su stvari teške zato što se ne usuđujemo.

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.

Qui mori didicit servire dedidicit.

I was not born for one corner; The whole world is my native land.

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...

Believe me if you consult philosophy she will persuade you not to lit so long at your counting desk

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

El mayor impedimento al vivir es la espera, que, por estar pendiente al día de mañana, pierde el día de hoy.

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...

All this hurrying from place to place won’t bring you any relief, for you’re traveling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way.

All the greatest blessings are a source of anxiety, and at no time should fortune be less trusted than when it is best; to maintain prosperity there is need of other prosperity, and in behalf...

The best ideas are common property

There is but one chain holding us in fetters, and that is our love of life.

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...

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