Seneca

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Those who would mend the world must first mend themselves.

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know, I’ve done it a thousand times.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again – and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Always seeking acceptance from others, searching for belonging. Striving for individuality, yet wanting to fit in. Never understanding that acceptance for one’s own individuality make all of that redundant.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

The less government we have the better.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.