Seneca the Younger

Undisturbed by fears and unspoiled by pleasures, we shall be afraid neither of death nor the gods.

Seneca the Younger

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca the Younger

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Seneca the Younger

We learn not in the school, but in life.

Seneca the Younger

We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.

Seneca the Younger

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

Seneca the Younger

We pardon familiar vices.

Seneca the Younger

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

Seneca the Younger

What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.

Seneca the Younger

What you think is the summit is only a step up.

Seneca the Younger