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Seneca·58 AD

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

Michel de Montaigne

Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little. Make use of time while it is present with you. It depends upon your will, and not upon the number of days, to have a sufficient length of life. Is it possible you can imagine never to arrive at the place towards which you are continually going? and yet there is no journey but hath its end. And, if company will make it more pleasant or more easy to you, does not all the world go the self-same way?

Seneca·65 AD

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live. And often this living nobly means that you cannot live long.