Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

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  God, Truth, Want

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

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• Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

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  Adversity, Tests, Merit

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• The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.

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  Goodness

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• Praise thyself never.

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  Modesty, Praise, Thyself

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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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• This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will.

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  Life, Complaining, Reason

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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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• Speech is the mirror of the mind.

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  Mirrors, Mind, Speech

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• A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

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  Happiness, Character, Guarantees

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• The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

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  Exercise, Self, Self Control

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• To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

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  Mad, Argument, Strive

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• It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

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  Use, Littles, Ill

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• Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.

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  Memories, Past, Evil

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• Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.

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  Might, Persons, Possessed

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• Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.

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  Example, Attention, Improvement

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• Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.

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  Successful, Long, Example

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• Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.

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  Effort, Mind, Relaxation

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• There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

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  Lying, People, Laughing

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• Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

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  Good Night, Light, Trouble

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

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• Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.

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  Memories, Kindness, Remembrance

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• Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.

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  Life, Long, Mind

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• We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.

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  Life, Fashion, Reason

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• It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

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  Calumny Is, Insult, Insulted

  "De Ira". Book by Seneca the Younger, II. 32, 45 AD.

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