“It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.”
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Famous Seneca the Younger Quotes
“No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.”
“Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.”
“The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.”
“No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.”
“The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.”
“You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.”
“The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.”
“In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.”
“The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.”
“Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.”
“Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.”
“The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.”
“Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.”
“Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.”
“The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.”