Quotes from Seneca the Younger

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.

We learn not for life but for the debating-room.

Life without literary studies is death.

One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.

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

Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura

Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.

Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.

Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.

To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.

To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Time is the greatest remedy for anger.