The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA thousand approaches lie open to death.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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