The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGERGenius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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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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We 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!
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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