Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger, usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
If you wished to be loved, love.
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.