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

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse...

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse...

As it is with a play, so it is with life, what matters is not...

As it is with a play, so it is with life, what matters is not...

Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.

Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.

Death ne'er can fail the man who wills to die.

Death ne'er can fail the man who wills to die.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity

Never give advice - sell it

Never give advice - sell it

Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us...

Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us...

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do...

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do...

Luck never made a man wise.

Luck never made a man wise.

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

The belly will not listen to advice

The belly will not listen to advice

He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it

He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks...

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks...

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

The greater part of progress is the desire for progress

The greater part of progress is the desire for progress

Fidelity that is bought with money may be overcome with money.

Fidelity that is bought with money may be overcome with money.

Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy...

Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy...

Fidelity is a gift not a requirement.

Fidelity is a gift not a requirement.

University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now...

University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now...