Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 32

• He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

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  Fear, Too Much, Dread

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• Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.

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  Madness, Drunkenness

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• When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

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  Writing, Style, Mind

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• If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

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  Travel, Different, Want

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• We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust it; the other will make our strength flabby and watery. It is better to have recourse to them alternately, and to blend one with the other, so that the fruits of one's reading may be reduced to concrete form by the pen.

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  Reading, Writing, Advice

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• Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.

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  Dream, Sleep, Men

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• A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary

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  Happiness, Stress, Men

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• The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.

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  Relaxation, Mind, May

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• There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

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  Wisdom, Courage, Fall

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• One hand washes the other.

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  Latin, Hands, Unity

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• Ignorance is the cause of fear.

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  Fear, Latin, Ignorance

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• Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

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  Love, Learning, Knowledge

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• What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too cheap or too common; and all this is to gratify a fantastical palate.

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  Life, Dog, War

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• There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.

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  Satisfaction, Companion

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 690-91, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, VI, 1922.

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• The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.

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  Time, Looks, Velocity

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• He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.

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  Hands, Tyrants, Iron

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• An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.

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  School, Men, Ridiculous

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• Crime requires further crime to conceal it.

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  Crime

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• He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.

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  Grieving, Sorrow, Causes

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• Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.

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  Crime, Prudence

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• Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

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  Retirement, Amusement, Tombs

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• Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

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  Honesty, Character, Class

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• Successful villany is called virtue.

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  Successful, Virtue

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• It is pleasant at times to play the madman.

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  Play, Madmen, Pleasant

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• Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

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  Law, Way, Given

  'Epistulae Morales' letter 70, sect. 14

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