Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 40

• 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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• 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

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

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• Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

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  Happiness, Failure, Adversity

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• He who has great power should use it lightly.

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  Leadership, Philosophical, Vision

  "Troades". Line 336, 1st century.

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• Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.

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  Beer, Views, Alcohol

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• Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all extremities. Nay, if there were no other comfort in it than the pare exercise of so generous a virtue, even for that single reason a man would not be without it; it is a sovereign antidote against all calamities - even against the fear of death itself.

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  Real, Exercise, Men

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• There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.

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  Character, Needs, Crooked

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• He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.

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  Gratitude, Appreciation, Struggle

  "On Benefits". Book by Seneca the Younger, 62 AD.

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• The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.

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  Peace, Attitude, Perception

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• Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

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  Stupid, Philosophical, Adversity

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

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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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