Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 13

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

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  Causes, Proof

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

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  Oneself, Servitude

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

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  Confidence, Blessed, Blessing

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• Luck never made a man wise.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved

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  Inspirational, Goal, Mind

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

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  Success, Congratulations, Thinking

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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.

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  Grief, Men, Sorrow

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• Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

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  Teacher, Learning, Vices

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• In war there is no prize for runner-up.

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  War, Philosophical, Runners

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• Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.

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  Art, Philosophy, Distance

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• Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

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  Fear, Bother, Thoughts Of Death

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• Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

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  Inspirational, Reason, Heal

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• Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.

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  Vices, Drunkenness

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• What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

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  Law, Innocence, Be Good

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 395-96, De Ira, II. 27, 1922.

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• Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.

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  People, Fancy, Prison

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• Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.

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  Inspirational, Our Words, Action

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• Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

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  Happy Life, Hands, Weight

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• The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.

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  Relaxation, Mind, Stronger

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• Philosophy is the health of the mind.

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  Philosophy, Mind

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• Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.

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  Distance, Adversity, Sides

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• Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.

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  Endurance, Prowess, Shows

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• To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.

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  Loss, Evil, Endeavour

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• The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.

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  Slavery, Slave, Be A Slave

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• I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.

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  Masters, Ashamed, Servitude

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 699, Troades, 989, 1922.

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• It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.

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  Uncertain

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