Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

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  Men

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• That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.

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  Fortune, Given

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• If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.

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  Fitness, Health, Numbers

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• Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

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  Office, Done, Charity

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• It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.

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  Life, Live Life, Tedious

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium", XXIII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

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  Country, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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• Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself.

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  Real, Heart, Long

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• Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it.

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  Silence, Favors, Silent

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• A great fortune is a great slavery.

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  Money, Philosophical, Slavery

  "Ad Polybium De Consolatione" by Seneca the Younger, Ch. VI, line 5, 40–45 AD.

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• But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

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  Life, Success, Money

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• A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

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  Hatred, Fool, Fools And Foolishness

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• That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

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  Ambition, Pride, Given

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Who has more leisure than a worm?

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  Leisure, Worms

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• There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.

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  Gratitude, Benefits, Interpretation

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