Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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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.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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