Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality. — Seneca Copy Share Image
“weigh carefully your hopes as well as your fears, and whenever all the elements are in doubt, decide in your own favour;… — Seneca Copy Share Image
We are more often frightened than hurt: our troubles spring more often from fancy than reality — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Let us be brave in the face of hazards. Let us not fear wrongs, or wounds, or bonds, or poverty. And what… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“that you would not anticipate misery since the evils you dread as coming upon you may perhaps never reach you at least… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“life is not worth living, and there is no limit to our sorrows, if we indulge our fears to the greatest possible… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Undisturbed by fears and unspoiled by pleasures, we shall be afraid neither of death nor the gods.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Beasts avoid the dangers which they see, and when they have escaped them are free from care; but we men torment ourselves… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“You should, I need hardly say, live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“the wise man is self-sufficient, that he can do without friends, not that he desires to do without them. When I say "can," I… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“This, I say, is the highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom, – that deed and word should be in accord, that” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“But both courses are to be avoided; you should not copy the bad simply because they are many, nor should you hate the many… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“I’ve come across people who say that there is a sort of inborn restlessness in the human spirit and an urge to change one’s… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“...certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
