Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 40

• That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.

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  Desire, Needs, Want

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• Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?

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  Hero, Ambition, Vanity

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• Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.

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  Foundation, Moderation, Unstable

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• A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

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  Honesty, Long, Solitude

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• Death is a release from and an end of all pains.

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  Death, Pain, Release

  "Of Consolation to Marcia". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1635.

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• One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.

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  Death, Dying, Wonder

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• Injustice never rules forever.

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  Justice, Forever, Injustice

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• Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.

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  Happiness, Philosophy, Real

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• The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

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  People, Poor, Desirable

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• It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

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  Humble, Men, Poverty

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• They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.

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  Night, Expectations, Dawn

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• Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

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  Greatness, Familiarity

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• He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.

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  Laughter, Mind, Tears

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• Man is a social animal.

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  Philosophy, Animal, Men

  "De Beneficiis" Book VII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 724-725), 1922.

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• May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

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  Philosophical, Justice, May

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

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• To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

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  Life, Anger, Suicidal

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• Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

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  Sad, Suicidal, Sadness

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• When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.

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  Prosperity, Ends, Prosperous

  "Hercules on Mount Oeta". Tragedy by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 713, 1st century.

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• Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate.

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  Dawn, Proud, Evening

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• Life is long if you know how to use it.

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  Long, Use, Life Is

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• Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

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  Teacher, Vices, Directors

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• True love can fear no one.

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  Fear No One

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• Men learn while they teach.

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  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Epistulae 7.8 (translated by R M Gummere).

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• Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

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  Inspirational, Motivation, Men

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