Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 2

• We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

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  Passion, Character, Night

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• The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

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  Inspirational, Fear, Motivation

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• We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

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  Life, Procrastination, Acting

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• Many things have fallen only to rise higher.

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  Motivational, Fallen, Higher

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• All cruelty springs from weakness.

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  Spring, Philosophical, Animal

  "On the Happy Life". Essay by Seneca the Younger (58 AD); later published in Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners", p. 174 (in the essay "The Sympathetic Temperment"), 1863.

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• Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.

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  Heart, Eye, Vision

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• The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.

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  Quiet, Speak, Great Things

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• Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.

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  Quality, Inward, Looks

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• The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it

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  Matter, Bears, Things That Matter

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• The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company

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  Men, Mind, Ability

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• Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

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  Life, Happiness, People

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• As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.

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  Mother, Soul, Looks

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• Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

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  Inspirational, Wise, Men

  "On the Good Life". 26:1,

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• Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

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  Adversity, Men, Fire

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• It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.

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  Too Late, Never Too Late, Late

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• Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

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  Men, Boredom, Suffering

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• He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.

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  Refusal, Invites, Asks

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• One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

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  Friendship, Beautiful, Loyalty

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• If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.

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  Secret, Wish, Firsts

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• The best cure for anger is delay.

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  Wisdom, Delay, Cures

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• Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

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  Wisdom, Future, Way

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• He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

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  Opportunity, Preparation, Luck

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• Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

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  Favour, Speak, Silent

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• The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

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  Letting Go, Time, Future

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