49 quotes
male given name
“f you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen.”
"There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
on Fear
"It is not death we fear but the thought of it."
"Fire is the test of gold adversity of strong men."
on Wisdom
"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."
on Courage
"Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds!"
on Philosophy
"The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time."
on Life
"Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool"
"If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person."
"It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it."
on Time
"Fortune reveres the brave and overwhelms the cowardly."
"The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable."
on Anxiety
"All cruelty springs from weakness."
"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."
on Literature
"Time heals what reason cannot."
"What must be shall be and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing."
"No matter how many men you kill, you can't kill your successor."
on Power
"Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring."
"We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole"
on Community
"There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with"
on Love
"It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult."