Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
SENECA THE YOUNGERConsider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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