The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We are more often frightened than hurt, and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca