Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 6

• Wisdom comes to no one by chance.

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  Wisdom, Chance

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

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  Fashion, Vices

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

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  Life, Learning, School

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• As was his language so was his life.

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  Thought Provoking, Silence, Language

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

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  Matter, Persons

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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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• 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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• To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.

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  Tongue, Firsts, Silent

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

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  Obedience, Command

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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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• 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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• Every guilty person is his own hangman.

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  Philosophical, Punishment, Guilt

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.

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  Fate, Men, Destiny

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