I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent—no one can ever know what y… - Seneca

Let just as many books be acquired as are enough, but none for mere show.

True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied.

I cannot help believing that Mucius was all the more lucky because he manipulated the flames as calmly as if he were holding out his hand to the manipulator. He had wiped out all his previous mistakes; he finished the war unarmed and maimed; and with that stump of a hand he conquered two kings.