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Seneca the Younger Quotes about Life - Page 2

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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.

Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Success, Son

What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?

Seneca the Younger
Life, Differences, Doe

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca the Younger
Life, God, Men
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Seneca the Younger
Life, God, Heart
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Age, Care
"Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium". Book by Seneca the Younger, LXI, c. 65 AD.

This life is only a prelude to eternity.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Eternity, Prelude

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Death, Wise
"Moral Essays: Ad Marciam De Consolatione". Translated by J. W. Basore,

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

Seneca the Younger
Life, Distance, Inspire

Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Life, Death

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca the Younger
Love, Life, Time

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Motivational, Wisdom

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Life, Happiness
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Evil, Fields

Time discovers truth.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Time, Truth
"On Anger". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 45 AD.

Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Men, Chance

This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Complaining, Reason

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.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Life, Honor

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Happiness, People

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Spring, New Beginnings

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

Seneca the Younger
Life, Spiritual, Home

It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Waste, Shortness

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Soul, Ignorant

Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Wisdom, Nature

What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too cheap or too common; and all this is to gratify a fantastical palate.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Dog, War

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