The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROur (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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