Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Failure changes for the better success for the worse.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth and for the great benefits of our being our life health and reason we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.

We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Where fear is happiness is not.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.

Courage leads starward fear toward death.

Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.

For many men the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles it only changes them.

Fortune reveres the brave and overwhelms the cowardly.