Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNot how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHow much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe sun shines even on the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLife without literary studies is death.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBe harsh with yourself at times.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFor many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIndolence is stagnation; employment is life.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPhilosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROne must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
SENECA THE YOUNGERNo crime has been without a precedent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER