Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 44

• The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.

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  Poverty, Wealth, Amount

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• A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

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  Independence, Steps, Treatment

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter CXXIII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1925.

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• No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.

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  Men, Order, Noble

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• Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.

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  Fall, Anger, Pieces

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• He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

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  Passion, Humanity, Generations

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• We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.

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  Stewards, Insatiable, Liberality

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• He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.

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  Disappointment, Years, Office

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• Expediency often silences justice.

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  Justice, Silence, Expediency

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• Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.

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  Countenance, Forged, Falsehood

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• It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.

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  Light, People, Might

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• It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.

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  Running, Heart, Greatness

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• 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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• Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

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  Rain, Wind, Sky

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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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