Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 11

• Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

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  Nature, Knowledge, Given

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium", CXX in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 419-423), 1922.

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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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• A great mind becomes a great fortune.

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  Philosophical, Mind, Great Minds

  "De Clementia". Book by Seneca the Younger,

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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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• Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger

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  Epileptics, Precaution, Regard

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• Men's language is as their lives.

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  Men, Language

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• Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.

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  Dream, Men, Indulge In

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• While we teach, we learn.

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  Teaching, Learning, Teach

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• Everything may happen.

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  Art, Philosophy, History

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• Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

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  Inspirational, Philosophical, Health

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

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• It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

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  Praise, Admirer, Provoking

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• The best ideas are common property.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Ideas

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter XII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

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• There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

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  Ambition, Purple, Luxury

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• The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

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  Happiness, Gratitude, Mind

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• Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

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  Men, Joy, Littles

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• Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

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  Work Out, Desire, Misery

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• Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.

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  Nature, Ignorance, Environmental

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• There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.

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  People, World, Appearance

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• That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.

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  Delight, Difficulty, Has Beens

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• That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.

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  Delight, Disregarded

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• My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.

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  Teaching, Writing, Happy Life

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• The way to good conduct is never too late.

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  Too Late, Way, Never Too Late

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• Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.

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  Time, Calendars, Given

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