Seneca the Younger Quotes About Life
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Time discovers truth.
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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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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
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If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.
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You 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?
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
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The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
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True love hates and will not bear delay.
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It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
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We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.
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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!
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When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.
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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
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This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will.
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Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.
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It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
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