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> [“It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and -what will perhaps make you wonder more - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucius-annaeus-seneca/it-takes-the-whole-of-life-to-learn-how-to-live-and-what-will-perhaps/)

[Lucius Annaeus Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucius-annaeus-seneca/)

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## More by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

> [It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucius-annaeus-seneca/it-s-not-because-things-are-difficult-that-we-dare-not-venture-it-s/)

[Lucius Annaeus Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucius-annaeus-seneca/)

> [“Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucius-annaeus-seneca/often-a-very-old-man-has-no-other-proof-of-his-long-life-than-his-age/)

[Lucius Annaeus Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucius-annaeus-seneca/)

> [“But nothing will help quite so much as just keeping quiet, talking with other people as little as possible, with yourself as much as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucius-annaeus-seneca/but-nothing-will-help-quite-so-much-as-just-keeping-quiet-talking/)

[Lucius Annaeus Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucius-annaeus-seneca/)

> [“Qui mori didicit servire dedidicit.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucius-annaeus-seneca/qui-mori-didicit-servire-dedidicit/)

[Lucius Annaeus Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucius-annaeus-seneca/)

> [“You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucius-annaeus-seneca/you-should-live-in-such-a-way-that-there-is-nothing-which-you-could/)

[Lucius Annaeus Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucius-annaeus-seneca/)

> [A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucius-annaeus-seneca/a-physician-is-not-angry-at-the-intemperance-of-a-mad-patient-nor/)

[Lucius Annaeus Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucius-annaeus-seneca/)

> [It even helps stupid people to try hard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucius-annaeus-seneca/it-even-helps-stupid-people-to-try-hard/)

[Lucius Annaeus Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucius-annaeus-seneca/)

> [The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucius-annaeus-seneca/the-mind-that-is-anxious-about-the-future-is-miserable/)

[Lucius Annaeus Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucius-annaeus-seneca/)

> [“It is a great man that can treat his earthenware as if it was silver, and a man who treats his silver as if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucius-annaeus-seneca/it-is-a-great-man-that-can-treat-his-earthenware-as-if-it-was-silver/)

[Lucius Annaeus Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucius-annaeus-seneca/)

> [“Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucius-annaeus-seneca/conversation-has-a-kind-of-charm-about-it-an-insinuating-and/)

[Lucius Annaeus Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucius-annaeus-seneca/)

> [“I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucius-annaeus-seneca/i-am-not-born-for-one-corner-the-whole-world-is-my-native-land/)

[Lucius Annaeus Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucius-annaeus-seneca/)

> [“As often as I have been amongst men, I have returned less a man.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucius-annaeus-seneca/as-often-as-i-have-been-amongst-men-i-have-returned-less-a-man/)

[Lucius Annaeus Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucius-annaeus-seneca/)

> [A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucius-annaeus-seneca/a-punishment-to-some-to-some-a-gift-and-to-many-a-favor/)

[Lucius Annaeus Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucius-annaeus-seneca/)

> [“Once you have rid yourself of the affliction there, though, every change of scene will become a pleasure. You may be banished to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucius-annaeus-seneca/once-you-have-rid-yourself-of-the-affliction-there-though-every/)

[Lucius Annaeus Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucius-annaeus-seneca/)

> [“When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucius-annaeus-seneca/when-a-person-spends-all-his-time-in-foreign-travel-he-ends-by-having/)

[Lucius Annaeus Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucius-annaeus-seneca/)

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