Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 14

• He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kindness, Ungrateful, Return

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 393-94, De Beneficiis, III. 1, 1922.

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• Real improvement is of slow growth only.

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  Real, Growth, Improvement

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• It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

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  Dog, Men, Practice

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226-27, Of a Happy Life, Chapter XIX, 1922.

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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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• There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

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  Insanity, Genius, Spices

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 396-97, De Animi Tranquillitate, XV. 10, 1922.

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• Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.

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  Love, Sorrow, Speak

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• I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.

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  Equal

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• Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.

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  Kings, House, Gentleman

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• It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.

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  Mind, Injury, Proof

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• He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.

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  Native American, American Indian, All Alone

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• I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.

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  Book, Mind, Together

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• Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

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  Hero, Adversity, Men

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• Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.

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  Time, Lasts, Moments

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• It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.

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  Vanity, Luxury, Doe

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• What you think is the summit is only a step up

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  Thinking, Steps, Step Up

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• A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.

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  Mind, Kingdoms, Lord

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• Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

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  Success, Philosophical, Offensive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.

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  Pain, Judging, Grace

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• There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Attitude

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• What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?

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  Life, Differences, Doe

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• Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet.

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  Truth, Claims

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• Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.

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  Science, Danger, Cures

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• Learn how to feel joy.

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  Happiness, Joy, Feels

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• Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

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  Courage, Riches, Fortune

  "Medea", CLXXVI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 142-44, 1922.

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• Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

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  Men, Leisure, Study

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