Quotes

“True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“While we are postponing, life speeds by.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“If you wished to be loved, love.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“All cruelty springs from weakness.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“It is quality rather than quantity that matters.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Every guilty person is his own hangman.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.” Robert William Service

“Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.” Robert William Service

“A promise made is a debt unpaid.” Robert William Service

“No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.” Robert William Service

“I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new.” Robert William Service

“The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.” Robert William Service

“Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.” Robert William Service

“It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.” Robert William Service

“His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.” Robert William Service

“I remember little of the Yukon or what I wrote there.” Robert William Service

“Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.” Robert William Service