Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.”

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

“He who is brave is free.”

“All cruelty springs from weakness.”

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”

“The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”

“Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”

“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”

“No man was ever wise by chance.”

“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”

“To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”

“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”

“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”