The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDeath either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPoverty needs much, avarice everything.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe young man must store up, the old man must use.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFor many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBe wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDrunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWho shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLeisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDisease is not of the body but of the place.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLuck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who is brave is free.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLight is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGER