Seneca

“I bade you have no fears on behalf of Cato himself, because the wise man can neither receive injury nor insult.”

“Let us accustom ourselves to set aside mere outward show, and to measure things by their uses, not by their ornamental trappings.”

“You have asked me, Lucilius, why, if the world be ruled by providence, so many evils befall good men?”

“We do not have a very short time assigned to us, but we lose a great deal of it: life is long enough to carry out the most important projects.”