Seneca

To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.

— Seneca adversity

On the Happy Life 15.5

The willing, destiny guides them. The unwilling, destiny drags them.

— Seneca fate

Letters 107.11 (after Cleanthes)

Live now; believe me, it is wiser not to put off living till tomorrow.

— Seneca action

Letters 101.10

The fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them.

— Seneca fate

Letters 107.11

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

— Seneca action

Letters 39.1

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

— Seneca control

Letters 13.4

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

— Seneca adversity

Letters 78.15

He who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

— Seneca wisdom

Letters 2.2

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

— Seneca mortality

Letters 101.10

The life given us by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

— Seneca mortality

On the Shortness of Life 15