Quotes from Seneca

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.

If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

If you wish to be loved; love!

To greed, all nature is insufficient.

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

He who profits by a crime commits it

The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Injustice never rules forever.

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness.

He who is brave is free.

He is most powerful who has power over himself

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success

That grief is light which can take counsel.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.