The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Time discovers truth.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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