Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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One 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.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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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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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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