Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 22

• Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

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  Men, Deceit, Distrust

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• Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.

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  Men, Ornaments, Elegance

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• The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that are not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace of another, who are under orders in case of the freest things in the world-loving and hating. If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own.

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  Hate, Sleep, Order

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• The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

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  Wise, Men, Hands

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• What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

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  Struggle, Choices, Littles

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• When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.

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  Letting Go, Tutor, Thyself

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• There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

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  Life, Motivational, Wisdom

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• Modesty forbids what the law does not.

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  Law, Doe, Modesty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No possession is gratifying without a companion.

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  Companionship, Companion, Possession

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 124-25, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, VI, 1922.

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• He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.

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  Inspirational, Way, Ends

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• What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

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  Self Esteem, Thinking, Attachment

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• To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand

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  Hands, Sweat, Sailing

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• He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

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  Family, Deeds, Ancestry

  "The Madness of Hercules". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 54 AD.

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• Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

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  Hate, Hateful, Despise

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• This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans: We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding, whereas they believe that clouds collide in order to create lightning. Since they attribute everything to gods, they are led to believe not that events have a meaning because they have happened, but that they happen in order to express a meaning.

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  Believe, Clouds, Order

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• It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.

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  Faults, Youth

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• The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.

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  Dwelling, Body, Host

  Epistulae ad Lucilium CXX

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• Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

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  Sheep, Tree, Lightning

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• True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.

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  Friends, True Friend, Delight

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• Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

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  Running, Thinking, People

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• It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.

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  Faith, Men, Thinking

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• No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

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  Money, Loss, Evil

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• A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

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  Prayer, People, Justice

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• The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

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  Inspirational, Time, Past

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• What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

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  Nature, Sweat, Easy

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