Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 21

• I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

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  Life, Distance, Inspire

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• Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

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  Men, Doors, Life And Death

  'Phoenissae' l. 152

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• In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

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  Time, Lying, Philosophy

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• Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.

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  Money, Party, Long

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• You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.

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  Winning, Ideas, Numbers

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• Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

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  Dream, People, Vices

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• The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.

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  Soul, Delight, Divinity

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• As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

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  Love, Life, Time

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• A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

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  Food, History, Independence

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• I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

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  Desire, Done, Care

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• The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.

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  Destiny, Drag, Guides

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• The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.

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  Wise, Mind, Able

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• Golden roofs break men's rest.

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  Men, Golden, Wealth

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• The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.

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  Kindness, Taken, Mean

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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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• Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.

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  Wish, Just Live

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• Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.

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  Good Life, Long, Soul

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• It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business.

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  Wise, Men, Long

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• Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

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  Love, Friendship, Benefits

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium", XXXV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.

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  Darkness, Mind, Doe

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 637-38, De Brevitate Vitæ, XIII, 1922.

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• Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

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  Inspirational, Life, Death

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• True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.

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  True Joy, Laughing, Brave

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• The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.

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  Taken, Heaven, Soul

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• There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

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  Wisdom, Men, Slavery

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• God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.

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  God, Eye, Men

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