People do not care how nobly they live, only how long, despite the fact that it is within everyone's reach to live nobly, but within no one's reach to live long

Quote by Seneca

Topics: Living Quotes

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

We are more often frightened than hurt: our troubles spring more often from fancy than...

We are more often frightened than hurt: our troubles spring more often from fancy than...

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use:...

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use:...

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Be harsh with yourself at times.

Be harsh with yourself at times.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

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...

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that...

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that...

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

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

He who is brave is free.

He who is brave is free.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

That grief is light which can take counsel.

That grief is light which can take counsel.

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

If you wish to be loved, love

If you wish to be loved, love

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare...

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare...

What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular...

What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular...

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing...

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing...

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions...

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions...