No untroubled day has ever dawned for me. - (Seneca - Adversity)

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. - (Seneca - Adversity)

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. - (Seneca - Adversity)

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. - (Seneca - Adversity)

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. - (Seneca - Adversity)

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. - (Seneca - Advice)

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still. - (Seneca - Age and Aging)

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world. - (Seneca - Age and Aging)

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. - (Seneca - Alcohol and Alcoholism)

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it. - (Seneca - Ambition)

Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others. - (Seneca - Ancestry)

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. - (Seneca - Ancestry)

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another. - (Seneca - Ancestry)

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. - (Seneca - Anger)

The greatest remedy for anger is delay. - (Seneca - Anger)