Seneca

To be happy you must eliminate two things: the fear of a bad future and the memory of a bad past.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

The good in life does not depend upon life’s length, but upon the use we make of it.

It is best to endure what you cannot change.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long if you know how to use it.

Lay hold of today’s task, and you will not need to depend so much upon tomorrow’s. While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Sometimes it is an act of bravery even to live.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.