The world you see, nature’s greatest and most glorious creation, and the human mind which gazes and wonders at it, and is the most splendid part of it, these are our own everlasting possessions and...

In truth, Serenus, I have for a long time been silently asking myself to what I should liken such a condition of mind, and I can find nothing that so closely approaches it as the...

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

How many men soever you slay, you will never kill your successor.

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

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

Here is your great soul —the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe...

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