Seneca

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

People do not die — they kill themselves.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

Man’s ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy—that he live in accordance with his own nature.

When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that ‘he hadn’t come to Asia with the intention of accepting whatever they cared to give him, but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.’ Philosophy, likewise, tells all other occupations: ‘It’s not my intention to accept whatever time is leftover from you; you shall have, instead, what I reject.’ Give you whole mind to her.

There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.