One should count each day a separate life.
—Seneca
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
—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
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
—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