The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDrunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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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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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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