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Seneca Quotes

Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and tutor to Nero, ~4 BCE–65 CE. The Letters to Lucilius remain the most-read Stoic text.

12 sourced quotes from Seneca across Fear & Stoicism.

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

Letters from a Stoic · ~65 CE Fear

“He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive.”

Moral Letters · Letter XXIV Fear

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

Letters from a Stoic 13 Stoicism

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

Letters Stoicism

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

Letters 2 Stoicism

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

Letters Stoicism

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”

Letters 78 Stoicism

“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”

Letters 76 Stoicism

“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”

Letters 1 Stoicism

“Life, if well lived, is long enough.”

On the Shortness of Life Stoicism

“All cruelty springs from weakness.”

Letters 28 Stoicism

“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”

attributed Stoicism