Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 37

• The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.

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  Life, Wise, Men

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• The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor; for it is dismissed with small payment if you give it only what you owe, and not as much as you can.

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  Giving, Creditors, Stomach

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• For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

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  Reason, Divine, Whole

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• However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

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  Brotherhood, May, Common

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• People do not die - they kill themselves.

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  Philosophy, People, Dies

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• Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.

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  Rivers, Fire, Darkness

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• Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

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  Work, Joyful, Fortune

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• Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

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  War, Law, Liberty

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• Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.

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  Death, Mean, Blessing

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• There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound.

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  Wind, Knows, Fairs

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• The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?

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  Satisfaction, Kind, Speak

  Letter 7, translated by Robin Campbell,

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• There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

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  Needs, May, Helping

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

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• No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.

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  Men, Return, He Man

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• While you teach, you learn.

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  Inspirational, Teach

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• Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.

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  Sad, Men, Doe

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• The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.

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  Teacher, Pilots, Sail

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• Whom they have injured they also hate.

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  Hate, Injured

  "On Anger". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 45 AD.

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• The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.

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  Vices, Employment, Active

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• Nemo tam divos habuit faventes,
  Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri.
  Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.

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  Time, Promise, Nemo

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• Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis.
  No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.

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  Time, Wicked, Too Short

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• Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine.... We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little.

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  Drinking, Wine, Sobriety

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• Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

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  Ambition, Knowing, Mind

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• The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.

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  Progress, Desire, Greater

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• Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.

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  Eye, Men, Long

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• The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

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  Courage, Powerful, Adversity

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