Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

All art is but imitation of nature.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you wished to be loved, love.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca