Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 14

• You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wind

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• The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.

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  True Joy, Joy, Foundation

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• Every journey has an end.

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  Journey, Goal, Ends

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• I would rather be sick than idle.

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  Sick, Idle

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• Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

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  Dream, People, Vices

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• Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

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  Best Friend

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• Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.

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  Men, Doors

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• It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

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  Mind, Atheism, Weak

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• Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.

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  Economy, Source, Revenue

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• 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.

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  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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• 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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• 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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• The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred.

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  Art, Kings, Hate

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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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• 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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• A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

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  Grateful, Men, Favors

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• Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.

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  Love, Sorrow, Speak

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

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  Hero, Adversity, Men

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

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  Time, Lasts, Moments

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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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• Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

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  Success, Philosophical, Offensive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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