Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 20

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

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  Ambition, Progress, Limits

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• Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.

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  Servitude

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• Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

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  Fear

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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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• With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

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  Money, Men, Littles

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• The language of truth is unvarnished enough.

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  Language, Truth Is, Enough

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• Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

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  Needs, Poverty, Avarice

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• Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.

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  Real, Please Me, Matter

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• The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

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  Fate, Drag, Willing

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 261-65, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, CVII, 1922.

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• You should rather suppose that those are involved in worthwhile duties who wish to have daily as their closest friends Zeno, Pythagoras, Democritus and all the other high priests of liberal studies, and Aristotle and Theophrastus. None of these will be too busy to see you, none of these will not send his visitor away happier and more devoted to himself, none of these will allow anyone to depart empty-handed. They are at home to all mortals by night and by day.

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  Home, Night, Wish

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• Nobody becomes guilty by fate.

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  Fate, Guilt, Guilty

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• It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make each thing one's own, not depend on the text and always to look back to the teacher. "Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this." Let there be space between you and the book.

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  Teacher, Memories, Book

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• It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.

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  Luxury, Example, Done

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• Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

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  Anger, Giving, Judgement

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• If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

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  Wisdom, Delight, Shut Up

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• Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

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  Freedom, Mean, Lists

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• We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

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  Body, Should, Ought

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• I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.

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  Mind, Lines, Citing

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• The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.

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  Book, Simple, Giving

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• ... frugality makes a poor man rich.

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  Men, Rich, Poor

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• Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.

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  Time, Past, Three

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• One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.

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  Friendship, Friends

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• Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.

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  Philosophy, Blow, Belief

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• We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.

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  Past, Life And Death, Looking Forward

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