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Kindly remember that he whom you call your slave sprang from the same stock, is smiled upon by the same skies, and on equal terms with yourself breathes, lives and dies. It is just as possible for you to see in him a free-born man as for him to see in you a slave.

Seneca the Younger

Before I became old I tried to live well; now that I am old, I shall try to die well; but dying well means dying gladly.

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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak with God as if men were listening.

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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

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The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can.

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Man's highest good is attained if he has fulfilled the good for which nature designed him at birth. And what is it which this reason demands of him? The easiest thing in the world — to live in accordance with his nature. But this has turned into a hard task by the general madness of mankind.

Seneca the Younger

That man lives badly who does not know how to die well.

Seneca the Younger