Seneca

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”

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

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

“No man was ever wise by chance.”

“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”

“The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.”

“Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life.”

“If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.”

“The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.”

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

“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”

“Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.”

“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”

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

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

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