Roman
Philosopher,
Dramatist and
Politician
(4 BC -
65 AD)
"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."
"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones."
"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."
"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."
"I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair."
"If you do not know to which port you are sailing, no wind is favorable."
"If you wish to be loved, love."
"It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence."
"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."
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
"Life without the courage for death is slavery."
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
"A man's as miserable as he thinks he is."
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."
"No man was ever wise by chance."
"One should count each day a separate life."
"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."
"To 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."
"You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise."
"You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear."
