Fear Quotes by Seneca the Younger

Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.

— Seneca the Younger

True love can fear no one.

— Seneca the Younger

The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

— Seneca the Younger

He who fears from near at hand often fears less.

— Seneca the Younger

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

— Seneca the Younger

You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.

— Seneca the Younger

The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you

— Seneca the Younger

Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.

— Seneca the Younger

Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.

— Seneca the Younger

It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

— Seneca the Younger

A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

— Seneca the Younger

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.

— Seneca the Younger

He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!

— Seneca the Younger

A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the…

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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.

— Seneca the Younger

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

— Seneca the Younger

To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy…

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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

All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that…

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As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so,…

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There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than…

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Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

— Seneca the Younger

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

— Seneca the Younger

That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.

— Seneca the Younger