Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 41

• 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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• Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

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  Sympathy, Grief, Doe

  "Troades" by Seneca the Younger, 786, 1st century.

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• To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.

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  Country, Father, Patriotism

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 584-87, Octavia, 444, 1922.

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• Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.

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  War, Tyrants, Historical

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• He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.

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  May, Doe, Praise

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 624-25, Octavia, 454, 1922.

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• The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.

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  Men, Done, May

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• God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.

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  Firsts, Repentance, Repent

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 665-66, De Beneficiis, VI. 23, 1922.

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• He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.

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  Safety, Trouble, Refuse

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 816, Oedipus, CCXIII, 1922.

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• Every change of place becomes a delight.

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  Delight, Variety

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• Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

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  Happiness, Vices, Leisure

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• The voice is nothing but beaten air.

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  Air, Voice, Beaten

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 840-41, Naturalinum Quæstionum, Book II. 29, 1922.

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• We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

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  Errors, Long, Suffering

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 871-82, Of Benefits, Book V, Chapter XXV, Epigram 67, 1922.

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• It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

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  Writing, Thinking, Deceit

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• It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.

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  Dignity, Easier, Grows

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• The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

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  Men, Air, Voice

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• The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

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  Guilt, Faces, Betray

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 345-46, Thyestes, CCCXXX, 1922.

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• He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

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  Guilt, Free Will, Guilty

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 345-46, Hercules Oetaeus, 886, 1922.

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• Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride

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  Pride, Cost, Hunger

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