Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 28

• I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body.

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  Husband, Clothes, Wife

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• This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

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  Life, Spiritual, Home

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• Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.

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  Nature, Secret, Doe

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• The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.

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  Real, Action, Compensation

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• All art is but imitation of nature.

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  Art, Philosophical, Garden

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

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• Mercy often inflicts death.

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  Mercy

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 509-10, Troades, 329, 1922.

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• Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.

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  Philosophy, Humanity, Unhappy

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• Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor.

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  Death, Punishment, Favors

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• That which takes effect by chance is not an art.

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  Art, Chance, Chances Are

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• An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.

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  Time, Cities, Age

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• Life is short and art is long.

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  Art, Life Is Short, Long

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• Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.

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  Christian, Men, Giving

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• It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.

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  Struggle, Fate, Destiny

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• A troubled countenance oft discloses much.

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  Countenance

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• Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

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  Fate, Men, Order

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• Life without the courage for death is slavery.

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  Courage, Slavery

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• Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.

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  Genius, Accepted

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• Fine conduct is always spontaneous.

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  Spontaneous, Behavior, Fine

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• No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

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  Book, Profitable

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• Men practice war; beasts do not.

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  War, Men, Practice

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• I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.

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  Sacrifice

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• Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

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  Prayer, Wish, Wish You

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius". Letter XCV, line 1, c. 65 AD.

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• The profit on a good action is to have done it.

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  Done, Deeds, Action

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• Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

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  Philosophical, Fate, Names

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.

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  Prayer, Blessing, Praying

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