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Seneca the Younger on Life

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The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.

It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.

The part of life which we really live is short.

To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can.

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.

What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily?

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Seneca the Younger (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.