Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

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

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.