Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 27

• The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

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  Art, Masters, Servant

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• It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.

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  Men, Frustrated, Wish

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• It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.

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  Knowledge, Useless, Useless Knowledge

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• Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.

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  Self, Insanity, Energy

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• Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

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  Perseverance, Courage, Sowing

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• Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.

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  Inspirational, Life, Honor

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• Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.

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  Truth, Secret, Tedious

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• Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

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  Nature, Pride, Doe

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• The world itself is too small for the covetous.

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  World

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• It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

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  Life, Happiness, People

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• What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.

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• He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

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  Doe, Crime, Invites

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• Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.

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  Revenge, Hatred, Chance

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• What once were vices are manners now.

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  Vices, Manners

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• The fortune of war is always doubtful.

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  War, Fortune, Doubtful

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• Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.

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  Men, Mind, Study

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• He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.

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  Deny, Doubtful

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• Our words should aim not to please, but to help.

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  Our Words, Helping, Should

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• There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer.

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  Evil, Vices, Doe

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• Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.

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  Death, Justice, Expecting

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• Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

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  Wish, Littles, Poverty

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• Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

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  Law, Doe, May

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• He that does good to another does good also to himself.

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  Teamwork, Kindness, Philosophical

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• If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.

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  Inspirational, Wind, Sailing

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