“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Imagination Copy Share Image
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca About Copy Share Image
“To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Freedom Copy Share Image
A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Appetite Copy Share Image
“The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Character Copy Share Image
“Humanity is the quality which stops one being arrogant towards one's fellows, or being acrimonious.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Arrogant Copy Share Image
“A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Guilt Copy Share Image
“There is but one chain holding us in fetters, and that is our love of life.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Chain Copy Share Image
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Acquisition Copy Share Image
“what's the use of overcoming opponent after opponent in the wrestling or boxing rings if you can be overcome by your temper?” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Boxing Copy Share Image
“You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Enemy Copy Share Image
“It is our conscience, not our pride, that has put doorkeepers at our doors.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Conscience Copy Share Image
“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Philosophy Copy Share Image
“Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Irritated Copy Share Image
“There is therefore no advice—and of such advice no one can have too much—which I would rather give you than this: that… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Advice Copy Share Image
“However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Desire Copy Share Image
“But only philosophy will wake us; only philosophy will shake us out of that heavy sleep. Devote yourself entirely to her. You're… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Philosophy Copy Share Image
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Angry Copy Share Image
“For the only safe harbour in this life's tossing, troubled sea is to refuse to be bothered about what the future will… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Confident Copy Share Image
“We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Fear Copy Share Image
“And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Envy Copy Share Image
“If he lose a hand through disease or war, or if some accident puts out one or both of his eyes, he… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Loss of a friend Copy Share Image
“Barley porridge, or a crust of barley bread, and water do not make a very cheerful diet, but nothing gives one keener… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Porridge Copy Share Image
“You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Death Copy Share Image
“Limiting one’s desires actually helps to cure one of fear. ‘Cease to hope … and you will cease to fear.’ … Widely… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Anxiety Copy Share Image
“Our Stoic philosophers, as you know, maintain that there are two elements in the universe from which all things are derived, namely… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Matter Copy Share Image
“The trip doesn’t exist that can set you beyond the reach of cravings, fits of temper, or fears … so long as… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Fear Copy Share Image
“Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course; it will make no noise, it… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Follow Copy Share Image
“Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Fear Copy Share Image
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Adversity Copy Share Image
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Crime Copy Share Image
“Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Books Copy Share Image
![“Limiting one’s desires actually helps to cure one of fear. ‘Cease to hope … and you will cease to fear.’ … Widely different [as fear and hope] are, the two of them march in unison like a prisoner and the escort he is handcuffed to. Fear keeps pace with hope … both belong to a mind in suspense, to…” quote by Lucius Annaeus Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/871/lucius-annaeus-seneca-3079_anxiety_limiting-one-s-desires-actually-helps-to_1947045.jpg)
