Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 19

• There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.

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  Hero, Self, Denial

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• What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

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  Death, Men, Joy

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• What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

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  Funny, Inspiring, Sarcastic

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• The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.

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  Pain, New Experiences, Evil

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• Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.

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  Loyalty, Military, Heart

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• He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

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  Doe, Ill, Wells

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• If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

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  Happiness, Men, Soul

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• So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

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  Punishment, Energy, Limits

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• It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.

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  Believe, Men, Faults

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• Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not be doubted that his part contributes to the generation, and adds much to that which has been collected.

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  Mind, Add, Generations

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• Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

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  Intelligence, Mediocrity, Helping

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• Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.

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  Overcoming, Fidelity

  "Agamemnon". Book by Seneca the Younger, 287,

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• The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

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  Adversity, Men, Two

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• What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.

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  Men, Ungrateful, Thrown

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• Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens; he has left this low-lying region and has soared upwards to that place which receives in its happy bosom the souls set free from the chains of matter. Your brother has not lost the light of day, but has obtained a more enduring light. He has not left us, but has gone on before.

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  Brother, Lying, Light

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• To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

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  Inspirational, People, Simplicity

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• When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.

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  Ambition, Progress, Limits

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• What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

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  Life, Death, Wise

  "Moral Essays: Ad Marciam De Consolatione". Translated by J. W. Basore,

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• An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.

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  Mind, Action, Disposition

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• On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.

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  Lying, Doe, Well Known

  'Thyestes' sc. 2, chorus (translation by Miller)

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• Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.

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  Eye, Tears, Dry

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• Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

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  Needs, Poverty, Avarice

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• Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.

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  Freedom, Liberty, Littles

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• It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.

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  Character, Personality, Desire

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• Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.

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  Practice, Advice, Training

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