Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 10

• Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Patience, Calm Mind, Comfort

  "On Tranquility of the Mind". Seneca the Younger's letter to Serenus as translated in William Bell Langsdorf "Tranquillity of Mind and Providence", 1900.

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• Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Ignorance, Men

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

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• It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with 'nature's laws', and secondly, resigning himself completely and uncomplainingly to whatever fate may send him. Only by living thus, and not setting too high a value on things which can at any moment be taken away from him, can he discover that true, unshakeable peace and contentment to which ambition, luxury and above all avarice are among the greatest obstacles.

  Seneca the Younger

  Taken, Mean, Ambition

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• 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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Brotherhood, Mutual Love, Body

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• It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Greatness, What Matters

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Share, Good Things, Pleasant

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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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Excess, Pleasure, Repetition

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• I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

  Seneca the Younger

  Communication, Language, Persons

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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?

  Seneca the Younger

  Views, Mind, Speech

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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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Writing, Men, Ideas

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• Be harsh with yourself at times.

  Seneca the Younger

  Reflection, Harsh

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• Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.

  Seneca the Younger

  Pain, Judging, Grace

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• The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

  Seneca the Younger

  Money, Adversity, Challenges

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

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

  Seneca the Younger

  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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Taste, Quitting

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

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• Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.

  Seneca the Younger

  Thinking

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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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Education, Giving Up, Science

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

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Practice, Training, Firsts

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• 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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Motivational, Men, Thinking

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• Those alone are wise who know how to love.

  Seneca the Younger

  Love, Wise, Know How

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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.

  Seneca the Younger

  True Friend, Mistake, Trust Yourself

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Goodness, Worst

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• Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kindness, Conquer, Ill

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Teaching, Learning, Lessons

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• The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Evil, Dying

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