Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
Seneca the YoungerLet not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
Seneca the YoungerWe should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.
Seneca the Younger