Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life is warfare.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

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

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.