The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGERGreatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
-
-
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The expression of truth is simplicity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Life without literary studies is death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
SENECA THE YOUNGER