Seneca the Younger Quotes

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

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.

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

One must live well to know what living is.

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

It's not how long you live, it's how well you live.

...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.

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

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.

Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.

A good life is a main argument.

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

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

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

Life well spent is long.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

While living I want to live well.

I think life is really good.

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

It matters not how long we live but how.

A long life is a life well spent.

It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.

Just live well. Just live

What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?

My life is okay, my life is pretty good.