Seneca

The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

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.

Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.

Everything hangs on one's thinking.

Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

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.

A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.

What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?