Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 5

• There exists no more difficult art than living.

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  Art, Difficult

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• Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain

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  Words Of Wisdom, Speech, Should

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• The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.

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  Mind, Genius, Rust

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• You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.

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  Overcoming

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• It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

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  Learning, Surprising, Whole

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• Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

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  Power, Long, Duration

  "Medea". Book by Seneca the Younger, 62 AD.

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• It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

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  Positivity, Mind, Stoicism

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• If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.

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  Evil, Companion, Propensity

  "Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius)". Book by Seneca the Younger (Letter CIV), circa 65 AD.

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• No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

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  Hate, Hatred, Despise

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• The sun shines even on the wicked.

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  Evil, Shining, Wicked

  "De Beneficiis", III. 25, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 235-36, 1922.

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• The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

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  Spiritual, Greatest Wealth, Simplicity

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• If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

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  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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• To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

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  Laughter, Adversity, Men

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• The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

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  Life, Happiness, Future

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• Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.

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  Happiness, Men, Humanity

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• No one can have all he desires.

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  Desire

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• He who is brave is free.

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  Freedom, Reality, Bravery

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

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• You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.

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  Cease

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• To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

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  Art, Philosophical, Political

  "The Madness of Hercules". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 54 AD.

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• Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.

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  Mass, Sentiments

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• It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

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  Success, Men, Forever

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• A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.

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  Horse, Animal, Men

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• There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.

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  Gratitude, Time, Men

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• He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!

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  Kings, Fear, Desire

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• We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.

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  Air, Deep Breathing, Spirit

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