It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.
Seneca the YoungerTo be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
Seneca the YoungerIt is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
Seneca the Younger