As long as you live, learn how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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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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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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