Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• What were once vices are the fashion of the day.

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  Fashion, Vices

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• We learn not in the school, but in life.

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  Life, Learning, School

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• The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

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  Philosophical, Punishment, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

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  Inspirational, Success, Courage

  "De Providentia" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 9-10., 1922.

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• You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

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  Philosophical, Storm, Pilots

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

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• Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

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  Workout, Philosophical, Exercise

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As was his language so was his life.

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  Thought Provoking, Silence, Language

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• There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

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  Men, Trying, He Man

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

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  Overcoming

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• Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

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  Death, Philosophical, Wish

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

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• You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

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  Philosophical, Wish, Live For Yourself

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.

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  Obedience, Command

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• We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!

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  Heart, Thinking, Views

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• Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.

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  Courage, World, Opinion

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• The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.

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  Matter, Persons

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• The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

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  Philosophical, Heart, Prosperity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Praise thyself never.

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  Modesty, Praise, Thyself

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• Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

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  Life, Philosophy, Immortal

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• When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.

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  Men, Fellow Man, Distress

  "Hercules Furens". 463, 1st century.

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• It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

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  Money, Passion, Worry

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• We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.

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  True Joy, Foundation, Vex

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• The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

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  Wise, Men, Quality

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• The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

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  Lust, Miserable, Shame

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• Every guilty person is his own hangman.

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  Philosophical, Punishment, Guilt

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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