Seneca

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?

God is near you, is with you, is inside you.

There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.

Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.

What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.

A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.