The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLuck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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After death there is nothing.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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