The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhatever 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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There 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.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Injustice never rules forever.
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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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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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Every journey has an end.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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