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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

Seneca the Younger

Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Admire Guide Speak
As long as you live, learn how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Live Long
The part of life which we really live is short.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Part Really Short
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Counsel Grief Light People
Whatever begins, also ends.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Begin Close End Time
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Able Mind Peace Terror
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Health Inside Love People
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Burn Grief Secret
Where fear is, happiness is not.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Motivational
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Emotion Matter More Person
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Equality Vice Virtue
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Humble Men Poverty
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greed Luxury Madness Peace
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?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Kindness Life

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