The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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How 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.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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One hand washes the other.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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