Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
SENECA THE YOUNGERReligion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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After death there is nothing.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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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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