One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.
Seneca the YoungerMany men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.
Seneca the YoungerThere has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
Seneca the YoungerBe silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
Seneca the YoungerThe greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.
Seneca the Younger