Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

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

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

What is true belongs to me!

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.