Seneca the Younger Quotes

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

Life should be great rather than long.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.

A long life is a life well spent.

A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

A good life is a main argument.

It's how you live that really counts

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

You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

I want to live my life moving forward with integrity and pride.

~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~