Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
Seneca the YoungerI persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
Seneca the YoungerIgnorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
Seneca the YoungerPrecepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.
Seneca the YoungerWe ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust it; the other will make our strength flabby and watery. It is better to have recourse to them alternately, and to blend one with the other, so that the fruits of one's reading may be reduced to concrete form by the pen.
Seneca the Younger