Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.
Seneca the YoungerWe deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.
Seneca the YoungerFor men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
Seneca the YoungerWhen one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.
Seneca the Younger