Seneca

“It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.”

“He who is wise will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can.”

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.”

“Restless men hurry over countries and seas, hating what they have, seeking what they have not.”

“Pleasure unrestrained leads to its opposite.”

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

“He alone is wise who knows the use of his time.”

“What is the master of life? Death well prepared for.”

“He who fears death will never do anything truly free.”

“As is each day, so is the whole of life.”

“All cruelty springs from weakness.”

“Anger is, as Aristotle defined it, an impulse, accompanied by pain, to a conspicuous revenge for a conspicuous slight.”

“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”

“He who has learnt how to die has learnt how to be a slave no more.”

“To live under constraint is a misfortune; but there is no constraint to live under constraint.”

“What is shameful to learn? Nothing — but everything is shameful not to learn.”

“Sometimes you must give up the dignity of the man and act like the dog.”

“It is foolish to plan in life, when you have no plan in dying.”

“Make haste, then, my dear Lucilius, and reflect: how greatly thou hast bettered thyself in the time given thee.”