Seneca
Biography
Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – AD 65), fully Lucius Annaeus Seneca and also known simply as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and—in one work—satirist of the Silver Age of Latin literature. **Source**: [Seneca the Younger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger) on Wikipedia.
Quotes from Seneca
"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
"Ignorance is the cause of fear."
"While we wait for life, life passes."
"Life is long, if you know how to use it."
"Cease to hope and you will cease to fear."
"Wealth is the slave of a wise man and the master of a fool."
"Only time can heal what reason cannot."
"While we are postponing, life speeds by."
"Hang on to your youthful enthusiasm, you will be able to use them better when you are older."
"He who is brave is free."
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
"Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future."
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."
"It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly."
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."
"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."
"We must be diligent in our pursuit of virtue, for the resistance of our vices is strong."