Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 18

• Forgive that you may be forgiven.

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  Forgiveness, Forgiving, May

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• Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.

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  Men, Suffering, Ease

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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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• 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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• If you would judge, understand.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wisdom, Judging, Understanding

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat.
  There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.

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  Patience, Mind, Patient

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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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• We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

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  War, Mad, Justice

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter XCV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1925.

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• Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.

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  Favour, Speak, Granted

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• Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.

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  Money, Land, Pennies

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• He who is everywhere is nowhere.

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  "Moral Letters to Lucilius, II". Book by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 65 AD.

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• It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

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  God, Greatness, Men

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• People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.

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  Kindness, Doctors, Practice Of Medicine

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• Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.

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  Anxiety, Leisure, Praying

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• Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.

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  Adversity, Men, Lasts

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• Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

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  Life, Age, Care

  "Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium". Book by Seneca the Younger, LXI, c. 65 AD.

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• Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.

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  Adversity, Prosperity, Fidelity

  "Agamemnon". Book by Seneca the Younger, 934,

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• This life is only a prelude to eternity.

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  Life, Eternity, Prelude

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• Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

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  Sweet, Memories, Bears

  "The Madness of Hercules". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 54 AD.

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• Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

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  Giving, Judgement, Blame

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• Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.

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  Law, Written, Unwritten

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• Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

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  Pain, Badass, Quality

  Epistulae ad Lucilium XCIV

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• You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.

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  Long, Should, Knows

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• An unpopular rule is never long maintained.

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  Long

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• No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.

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  Merit, Mere

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