Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.

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  Death, Freedom, Political

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• The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.

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  Mind, Holy, Pure

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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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• Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

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  Life, Long, Wells

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• It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

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  Time, Philosophical, Able

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• The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

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  Luxury, Simplicity, Effort

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• No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.

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  Country, Patriotism, Size

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• He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

  Seneca the Younger

  Eye, Ravens, Sheep

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• Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

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  Men, Spinning, Crash

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• To the believers it is true.
  To the wise it is false.
  To the leaders it is useful.

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  Inspirational, Life, Wise

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• Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

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  Philosophical, Heart, Blame

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• Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.

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  Behaviour, Behavior, Levity

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• Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

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  Happy Life, Perfect, Virtue

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• He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.

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  Death, Doe, Want

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• That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.

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  Loss, Negligence

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• Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.

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  Companionship, Drink, Should

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 124-25, Epistles, XIX, 1922.

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• It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.

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  Book, Reading, Careful

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• To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.

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  Failure, Errors, Devil

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• Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.

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  Hate, Men, Vices

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• Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

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  Death, Sorrow, Debt

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• A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty

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  Freedom, Liberty, Moderation

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