The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLight cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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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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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Time discovers truth.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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