Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 17

• Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

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  Nature, Stoic, Motto

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• Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

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  Love, Goes On

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• Every journey has an end.

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  Journey, Goal, Ends

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• A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

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  Happiness, Happy, Philosophical

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• The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

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  Life, Courage, Hero

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• Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.

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  Moments, Pleasure, Charm

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• The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.

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  Misery, Kind, Spiteful

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• So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.

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  Wish, Inferiors, Superiors

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• Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.

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  Men, Should Have, Years

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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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• Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.

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  Travel, Stars, Sky

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• Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

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  Adversity, Men, Brave

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• There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.

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  Effort, Care, Diligence

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• For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

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  Freedom, Men, Simplicity

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• Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)

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  Death, Philosopher, Whole

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• Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

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  Real, Evil, Suffering

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• The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.

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  Men, Heaven, Good Man

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• Disease is not of the body but of the place.

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  Advice, Body, Disease

  Epistulae ad Lucilium

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• Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

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  Philosophical, Danger, Exposure

  "De Providentia", IV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 158-160), 1922.

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• The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.

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  Philosophy, Fundamentals, Facts

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• Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.

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  Time, Attitude, Adversity

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• Forgive that you may be forgiven.

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  Forgiveness, Forgiving, May

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• What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

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  Men, Doe, Demand

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• True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

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  Nature, Law, Environmental

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• If you would judge, understand.

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  Wisdom, Judging, Understanding

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