The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back
Seneca the ElderWe should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
Seneca the ElderIt is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Seneca the Elder