Seneca: 8
Letters to Lucilius, 13“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
On the Shortness of Life, 1“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”
Letters to Lucilius, 101“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
attributed“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Letters to Lucilius (paraphrase)“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour does the body.”
Letters to Lucilius, 36“Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms; you will be able to use them better when you are older.”
Letters to Lucilius, 56“Nothing is so certain as that the evils of idleness can be shaken off by hard work.”
On the Shortness of Life, 16“Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.”