The Roman Stoic Seneca left us a rich portfolio of aphorisms pertaining to decision making.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge.
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him.
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one’s impulses.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
Speech is the mirror of the mind. (Imago Animi Sermo Est)
The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.
The best ideas are common property.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.