Seneca: Why then do you occupy me with the words rather than with the works of wisdom? Make me braver, make me calmer, make me t

Why then do you occupy me with the words rather than with the works of wisdom? M — Seneca

Why then do you occupy me with the words rather than with the works of wisdom? Make me braver, make me calmer, make me the equal of Fortune, make me her superior.

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quae fuit durum pati, meminisse dulce est. — Seneca
The one loves to do good, the other to do harm; the one to help even strangers, — Seneca
Qui nil potest sperare, desperate nihil. — Seneca
Nusquam est qui ubique est. Vitam in peregrinatione exigentibus hoc evenit, ut m — Seneca
One's obedience to God is proportionate to one's wisdom. — Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
A short saying oft contains much wisdom. — Sophocles
And he is oft the wisest man Who is not wise at all. — William Wordsworth
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome. — Miguel de Cervantes
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate u — Immanuel Kant
If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, fo — Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
Those who do not observe the movements of their own minds must of necessity be u — Marcus Aurelius
For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm’d its fir — Matthew Arnold