Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe young man must store up, the old man must use.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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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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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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