Seneca

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

—Seneca

Speech is the mirror of the mind.
(Imago Animi Sermo Est)

—Seneca

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

—Seneca

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

—Seneca

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

—Seneca

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

—Seneca

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

—Seneca

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

—Seneca

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

—Seneca

One should count each day a separate life.

—Seneca

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

—Seneca

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

—Seneca

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

—Seneca