I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say let speech harmonize with life.
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. - Epistulae ad Lucilium
This is the reason we cannot complain of lifeit keeps no one against his wll.
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another. - Hercules Furens
Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
