We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
