Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.

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  Long, Secrecy, Concealment

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 695-96, Oedipus, 826, 1922.

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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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• 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

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

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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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