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Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65

Seneca the Younger on wisdom

The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can.

Seneca the Younger

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXX: On the proper time to slip the cable, Line 4.

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