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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

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  Greed, Littles, Persons

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• Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.

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  Repeats

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• If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.

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  Time, Add, Another Day

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• He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

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  Poverty, Rich, Made

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• Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

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  Attitude, Mind, Principles

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• We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

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  Wicked, Together, Crowds

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• It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

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  Long, Care, Long Life

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• Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

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  Courage, Adversity, Men

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• No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.

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  Wisdom, Long, Politics

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• Unjust rule does not last forever.

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  Forever, Unjust, Politics

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• Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.

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  Asking, Debt, Pay

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• The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.

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  Men, Heaven, Noble

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• Consider an enemy may become a friend.

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  Enemy, May

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• If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.

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  Fear, Thinking, All Things

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• The most happy ought to wish for death.

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  Death, Wish, Ought

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• The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

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  Evil, Wickedness, Way

  "Agamemnon". Book by Seneca the Younger (line CXV), 1st century AD.

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