Seneca

True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the read more

True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the read more

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.

This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

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

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