What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.Epictetus
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.Epictetus
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.Epictetus
