Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 8

• Life is most delightful on the downward slope.

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  Aging, Life Is, Delightful

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• Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

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  Success, Powerful, Military

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

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• Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

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  Positive, Art, Philosophy

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• Abstinence is easier than temperance.

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  Abstinence, Easier, Temper

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• He who is penitent is almost innocent.

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  Innocent, Penitence

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• There is no genius without a mixture of madness.

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  Genius, Mixtures, Madness

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• The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

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  Death, Long, Dying

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• Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.

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  Life, Inspire, Accepted

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• Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.

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  Work, Tasks, Today

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• We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.

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  Character, Long, Empowering

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• We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.

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  Educational, Taught

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

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• Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.

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  Wicked, Demand, Equal

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• The worse a person is the less he feels it.

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  Awareness, Feels, Self Awareness

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• A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

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  Adversity, Color, Events

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• Money has never yet made anyone rich.

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  Money, Rich, Made

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• There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

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  Time, Men, Long

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• It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.

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  Should, Fortune, Mankind

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• How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.

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  Love, Teaching, Pupils

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• A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.

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  Dwarves, Mountain, Height

  "Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium". Book by Seneca the Younger,

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

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  Mass, Sentiments

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• There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

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  Courage, Men, World

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

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• The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

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  Motivational, Positive, Cheer

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

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• The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

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  Life, Giving, Hours

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• The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.

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  Men, Thinking, Giving

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• Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor

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  Inspirational, Travel, Vigor

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