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"Nobody is guilty by fate."

"Oedipus"

"We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing."

"It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have."

"We learn not in school, but in life."

"I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling."

"The fates lead him who will — him who won't they drag."

"This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will."

"No man ever became wise by chance."

"It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die."

"It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none."

"Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue."

"All art is but imitation of nature."

"Non ille diu vixit, sed diu fuit."
He did not live a long time, but he lasted a long time.

"Ante senectutem curavi ut bene virerem; in senectute curo ut bene moriar."
Before old age I gave care to living a good life; in old age I give care to dying well.

"Hesitation is the best cure for anger."

"Quaedam non iura scripta sed omnibus scriptis certiora sunt."
Some laws are unwritten, but they are better established than those which are.

"Aliquando et insanire iucundum est."
Tis sometimes pleasant even to act as a madman.

"Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit."
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

"De Tranquillitate Animi"

~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(ca. 4 BCE—65 CE)

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