Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 35

• Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.

  Seneca the Younger

  Long, Secrecy, Concealment

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

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• The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

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  Artist, Painting, Pleasure

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• Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

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  Luxury, People, Simplicity

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• Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.

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  Speak, Guides, Admire

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• If you are wise,
  You will mingle one thing with the other-
  Not hoping without doubt;
  Not doubting without hope.

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  Wise, Doubt, Without Hope

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• What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Differences, Essentials

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• Where fear is, happiness is not.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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

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• No man was ever wise by chance.

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  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82., 1922.

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• To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wind, Vision, Doe

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• What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Real, Heart, Blessing

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• A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Hands, Bird

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• A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

  Seneca the Younger

  Birthday, Done, Benefits

  "De Beneficiis" by Seneca the Younger, I. 6, 63 AD.

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• Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est.
  The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Journey, Ads

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• He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Sweet, Poison

  "Hippolytus", CXXXIV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 464-484), 1922.

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• If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

  Seneca the Younger

  Power, Judgment, Command

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• See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

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  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Philosophical

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

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• It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

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  Differences, Sin, Deals

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

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• See what daily exercise does for one.

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  Exercise, Energy, Doe

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• The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.

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  Life, Wise, Simple

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• I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.

  Seneca the Younger

  Travel, Land, World

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• That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

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  Inspiring, Philosophical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

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  Inspirational, Men, Giving

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

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• We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. [We must learn to control and focus the force of our imagination on the good, bright side so it is positive and constructive helping ourselves and others, rather than let its force focus on the bad, dark side so it is negative and destructive hurting ourselves and others!]

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  Hurt, Dark, Reality

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• No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

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  Action, Willpower, Blameless

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• There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

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  Punishment, Wickedness, Deeds

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