If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
A person's life persuades better than his word.
The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Adventure is worthwhile.
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.
