It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Seneca the YoungerThe best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.
Seneca the YoungerTo preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
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 Younger