Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 10

• We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.

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  Brotherhood, Mutual Love, Body

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• We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.

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  Educational, Taught

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter CVI)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1925.

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• Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.

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  Excess, Pleasure, Repetition

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• But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.

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  True Friend, Mistake, Trust Yourself

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• No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.

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  Share, Good Things, Pleasant

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• Do everything as in the eye of another.

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  Eye, Vision

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.

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  States, Dues, Security

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• The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

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  Deeds And Words, Proof, Should

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• The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.

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  Men, Thinking, Giving

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• I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

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  Writing, Men, Ideas

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• Be harsh with yourself at times.

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  Reflection, Harsh

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• Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.

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  Educational, Soul, Words Of Wisdom

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• Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

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  Education, Giving Up, Science

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Those alone are wise who know how to love.

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  Love, Wise, Know How

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• Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

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  Practice, Training, Firsts

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• Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.

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  Thinking

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• What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?

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  Views, Mind, Speech

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• Men's language is as their lives.

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  Men, Language

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• They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites.

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  Light, Originality, Satellites

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• No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

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  Men, Taste, Quitting

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.

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  Kindness, Conquer, Ill

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• That grief is light which can take counsel.

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  Grief, Light

  "Medea". I, 55, 1st century.

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• A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.

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  Teaching, Learning, Lessons

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• Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

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  Success, Powerful, Military

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is not goodness to be better than the worst.

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  Goodness, Worst

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