Seneca

Ignorance is the cause of fear.

— Seneca wisdom

Letters 82.16

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

— Seneca control

Letters 27.2

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

— Seneca adversity

Letters 107.12

One should count each day as a separate life.

— Seneca action

Letters 101.10

If you seek tranquility, do less.

— Seneca freedom

On Tranquility 7.3

Fate permits us nothing more certain than death.

— Seneca mortality

Consolation to Polybius 11.2

All this is part of the price of being born.

— Seneca fate

Consolation to Marcia 10.6

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

— Seneca wisdom

Letters 71.3

You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.

— Seneca mortality

On the Shortness of Life 3.4

Nothing is so unworthy of a man of worth as to have no worthy thing to do.

— Seneca action

Letters 22.9