It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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