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