Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Only a mind that is deeply stirred can utter something noble and beyond the power of others.

For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast – a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the...

And so there is no reason for you to think that any man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles, he has not lived long – he has existed long. For what...

So let those people go on weeping and wailing whose self-indulgent minds have been weakened by long prosperity, let them collapse at the threat of the most trivial injuries; but let those who have spent...

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 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.