Seneca the Younger Quotes About Live Life
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My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.
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When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
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You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.
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It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.
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