Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 5

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

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  Happiness, Men, Humanity

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• Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

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  Depressing, Mind, Quality

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• Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

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  Men, Long, Care

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter XXII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

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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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• 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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• 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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• No one can keep a mask on long.

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  Long, Mask

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• If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  'Epistulae ad Lucilium' letter 71, sect. 3

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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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• To govern was to serve, not to rule.

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  Love, Leadership

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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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• A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

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  Fear, Men, Play

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• Nothing is ours except time.

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  Time, Acceptance, Time Management

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• Wisdom comes to no one by chance.

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  Wisdom, Chance

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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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• Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

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  Player, Games, Chess Game

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• He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.

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  Pardon

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• It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

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  Money, Mind, Bears

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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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• 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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• 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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• A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.

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  Taken, Men, Debt

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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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