The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFreedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Men learn while they teach.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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After death there is nothing.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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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.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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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?
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