Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 38

• Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

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  Fall, Punishment, Penalties

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• Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.

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  Crime, Recoil

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• He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.

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  Sins Not, Sin, Sinner

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• The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.

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  Long, Mind, Doe

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• The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.

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  Long, Way, Unfortunate

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• You roll my log, and I will roll yours.

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• True love hates and will not bear delay.

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  Life, Hate, Delay

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• Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

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  Inspirational, Fate, Destiny

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• You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

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  Time, Modesty, Repeats

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• Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

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  Return, Modesty, Knows

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• What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper.

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  Men, Offering, Issues

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• Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.

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  Men, Mind, Innocence

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• Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

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  Happiness

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• Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.

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  Gratitude, Virtue, Profit

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• Man is a reasoning Animal.

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  Animal, Men, Law

  "Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium". Book by Seneca the Younger, Letter XLI: On the god within us, line 8,

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• Light cares speak, great ones are speechless. -Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent

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  Caring, Light, Care

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• There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing.

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  Death, After Death

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• Apples taste sweetest when they're going.

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  Apples, Taste, Decline

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• It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.

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  "Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium". Book by Seneca the Younger,

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• A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.

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  Enjoyment, Pursued

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 225-26, Epistles, XXIII. 3. 4, 1922.

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• No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.

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  Practice, Choices, Window Dressing

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• There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

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  Helping Others, Delight, Helping

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• Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

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  Drinking, Alcohol, Insanity

  Epistulae ad Lucilium LXXXIII

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• A thousand approaches lie open to death.

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  Lying, Thousand, Approach

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• He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.

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  Plato, Mean, Son

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