Seneca

So long, in fact, as you remain in ignorance of what to aim at and what to avoid, what is essential and what is superfluous, what is upright or honorable conduct and what is not, it will not be travelling but drifting. All this hurrying from place to place won__ bring you any relief, for you__e travelling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way.

All this hurrying from place to place won__ bring you any relief, for you__e traveling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way.

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you__e needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

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 with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

I've come across people who say that there is a sort of inborn restlessness in the human spirit and an urge to change one's abode; for man is endowed with a mind which is changeable and and unsettled: nowhere at rest, it darts about and directs its thoughts to all places known and unknown, a wanderer which cannot endure repose and delights chiefly in novelty.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last.

Sorrowers tend to avoid what they are most fond of and try to give vent to their grief.

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

¿Preguntas cúal es el fundamento de la sabiduría? No gozarte en cosas vanas.

Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits

Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ...

Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.

I am not a __ise man,_ nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I reduce the number of my vices, and blame my mistakes.

How silly then to imagine that the human mind, which is formed of the same elements as divine beings, objects to movement and change of abode, while the divine nature finds delight and even self-preservation in continual and very rapid change.

errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.

It takes all of our life to learn how to live, and _ something that may surprise you more _ it takes just as long to learn how to die.

Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size.