Seneca

“I will keep constant watch over myself and — most usefully — will put each day up for review… Let us balance life’s books each day…”

“I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent. No one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you.”

“The man who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive.”

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”

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

“Difficulties strengthen the mind as labor does the body.”

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

“No man is more unhappy that he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.”

“There is no genius without a touch of madness.”

“While we wait for life, life passes.”