The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Time discovers truth.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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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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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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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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No crime has been without a precedent.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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