Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 43

• It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

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  Ambition, Evil, Quality

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• How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?

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  Action

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• Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.

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  Fighting, Battle, Retreat

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• Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.

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  Powerful, Spring, Rain

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• The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

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  Money, Lying, Political

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• Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.

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  Simplicity, Goodness, Squalor

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• Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.

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  Goal, Management, Planning

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXI)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

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• Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

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  Successful, Law, Names

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• To the stars through difficulties.

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  Stars, Difficulty, Live By

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• His head was turned by too great success.

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  Success, Great Success

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• The time will come when diligent research over periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden...Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memories of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has something for every age to investigate. nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.

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  Nature, Sorry, Memories

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• That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

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  Peace, Luxury, Greed

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• Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

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  Happiness, Powerful, Men

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• Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.

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  Insecure, Land, Tyrants

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• The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

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  Inspirational, Friendship, Giving

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXI)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

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• Fear drives the wretched to prayer

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  Prayer, Wretched

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• [During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.

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  Mistake, Way, Ruins

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• It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.

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  Men, Sweat, Togas

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• There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

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  Elements, Madness, Talent

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• Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.

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  Grief, Light, Sorrow

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• No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.

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  Fall, Sorrow, Emotion

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• Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

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  Reign, Submit, Greater

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• The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.

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  Long, Patterns, Way

  Epistulae, 6.5 (translated by R M Gummere).

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• It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

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  Men, Sweat, Togas

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• Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)

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  Sides, Heard, Wells

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