Lucius Annaeus Seneca
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
“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.”
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. If you wished to be loved, love.
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
