Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 12

• 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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Freedom, Political

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Mind, Holy, Pure

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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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Work Out, Desire, Misery

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

  Seneca the Younger

  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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Luxury, Simplicity, Effort

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Long, Wells

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Spinning, Crash

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Behaviour, Behavior, Levity

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Loss, Negligence

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Country, Patriotism, Size

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• To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-

  Seneca the Younger

  Oneself, Servitude

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Heart, Blame

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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.

  Seneca the Younger

  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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Doe, Want

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• There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.

  Seneca the Younger

  Confidence, Blessed, Blessing

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Sorrow, Debt

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Hate, Men, Vices

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Freedom, Liberty, Moderation

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• Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

  Seneca the Younger

  Success, Congratulations, Thinking

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Failure, Errors, Devil

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• Luck never made a man wise.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.

  Seneca the Younger

  Causes, Proof

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• The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.

  Seneca the Younger

  Grief, Men, Sorrow

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