Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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After death there is nothing.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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