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 I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Quote by Seneca

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Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

The greater part of progress is the desire for progress

The greater part of progress is the desire for progress

If you judge, investigate

If you judge, investigate

Be harsh with yourself at times.

Be harsh with yourself at times.

If you judge, investigate

If you judge, investigate

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Life without the courage for death is slavery

Life without the courage for death is slavery

No man was ever wise by chance.

No man was ever wise by chance.

Laws do not persuade because they threaten

Laws do not persuade because they threaten

He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another

He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond...

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond...

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

No man ever became wise by chance

No man ever became wise by chance

We live not according to reason, but according to fashion

We live not according to reason, but according to fashion

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just