As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good i... - Seneca

"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."

"Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."

"Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company."

"Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."

"The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way."