Lucius Annaeus Seneca

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

If you wished to be loved, love.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.