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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

All art is but imitation of nature.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca