It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing! — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
