Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 24

• Full of men, vacant of friends.

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  Men, Vacant

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• No evil is without its compensation.

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  Evil, Compensation

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• Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.

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  Ease, Given, Weary

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• If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life that is all made up for show; for it is torturous to be constantly watching oneself and be fearful of being caught out of our usual role. And we are never free from concern if we think that every time anyone looks at us he is always taking-our measure; for many things happen that strip off our pretence against our will, and, though all this attention to self is successful, yet the life of those who live under a mask cannot be happy and without anxiety.

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  Fashion, Integrity, Successful

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• The Germans, a race eager for war.

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  Peace, War, Race

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• Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

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  Too Late, Purses, Economics

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• Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

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  Freedom, Integrity, Responsibility

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• Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

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  Inspirational, Slavery, Human Trafficking

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• In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

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  Nature, Long, Ashes

  "Quæstionum Naturalium". Book by Seneca the Younger, Book III. 27,

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• How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!

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  Numbers, Would Be, Slavery

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• Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?

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  Beauty, Rely Upon, Fleeting

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• There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

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  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

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  Peace, Home, Character

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• Speech is the index of the mind.

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  Mind, Speech

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• No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

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  Being Happy, Integrity, Lying

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• Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.

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  History, World, Matter

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• A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.

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  Love Is

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• If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

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  Philosophical, Loss, Animal

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• Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Overcoming, May

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• Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.

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  Men, Wife, Infidelity

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• Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

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  Justice, Guilt, Bars

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• No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.

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  Men, Credit, Favors

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• Time is the greatest remedy for anger.

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  Time, Remedy

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• Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.

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  Limits, Unstable, Position

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• Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

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  Life, Spring, New Beginnings

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