Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

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  Birthday, Happiness, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.

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  Greatness, Men, Resolution

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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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• An unpopular rule is never long maintained.

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  Long

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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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• 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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• A hated government does not long survive.

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  Government, Long, Doe

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

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  Merit, Mere

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• It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.

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  Mind, Doe, Rich

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• We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

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  Pleasant, Asks

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• As the world leads we follow.

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  World

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