We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
classical · stoicism
Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · c. 4 BC–AD 65 · Roman
Statesman and Stoic letter-writer who made philosophy a craft of mornings: time, anger, fortune, and the rehearsal of death.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
He who is brave is free.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
While we wait for life, life passes.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Time discovered truth.