A great mind becomes a great fortune.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
All art is but imitation of nature.
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
No man was ever wise by chance.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
