Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives."

"In war there is no prize for runner-up."

"No man was ever wise by chance."

"Time discovers truth."

"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."

"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant."

"All art is but imitation of nature."

"Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall."

"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."

"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."

"Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war."

"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God."

"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."

"Every reign must submit to a greater reign."

"For greed all nature is too little."

"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them."

"He who is brave is free."

"If you wished to be loved, love."

"Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way."

"Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity."

"Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."

"Love in its essence is spiritual fire."

"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."

"The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger."

"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."

"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."

"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."

"While we are postponing, life speeds by."