Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 11

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

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  Death, Evil, Dying

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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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• 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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• 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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• While we teach, we learn.

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  Teaching, Learning, Teach

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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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• 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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• 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 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.

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  Inspirational, Greatness, What Matters

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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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• It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

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  Use, Littles, Ill

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

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  Nature, Ignorance, Environmental

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

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  Delight, Difficulty, Has Beens

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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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• The way to good conduct is never too late.

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  Too Late, Way, Never Too Late

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• The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

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  Inspirational, Fall, Optimistic

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• A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.

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  Blessing, Heaven, Mind

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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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• He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.

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  Doe, Praise, Pedigree

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• Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

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  Toil, Talent, Strive

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

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