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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHow much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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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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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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