People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which i… - Seneca

Much must also be withdrawn into oneself: for a well-composed conversation of differences disturbs and renews the affections, and infuriates whatever is weak in the mind and has not been cared for...
Loneliness will cure the hatred of the crowd, the boredom of solitude will be cured by the crowd.
... A certain dullness and languor of the mind is born from constant toil.
...Nor would the desire of men so much tend to this, unless play and fun had a kind of natural voluptuousness. The frequent use of which will relieve all the weight of the soul and all the vigor.
For sleep is also necessary for refreshment, but if you continue it day and night, death will result.

Get used to your circumstances, complain about them as little as possible and grasp whatever advantages they have to offer.

You have demanded of me, Novatus, that I should write how anger may be soothed, and it appears to me that you are right in feeling especial fear of this passion, which is above all others hideous and wild: for the others have some alloy of peace and quiet, but this consists wholly in action and the impulse of grief, raging with an utterly inhuman lust for arms, blood and tortures, careless of itself provided it hurts another, rushing upon the very point of the sword, and greedy for revenge even when it drags the avenger to ruin with itself.