Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 9

• The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.

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  Men, Thinking, Generations

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• If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

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  Wisdom, Restriction, Should

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• The abundance of books is distraction

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  Book, Abundance, Distraction

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• Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.

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  Satisfaction, Enjoy, Satisfied

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• No one can have all he desires.

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  Desire

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• What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.

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  Wise, Revenge, Blow

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• Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.

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  Delay, Favour, Flight

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• The whole discord of this world consists in discords.

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  World, Discord, Contention

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• While we wait for life, life passes

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  Waiting

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• The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

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  Acquisition, Riches, Faults

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• You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

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  Life, Death, Kindness

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• Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

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  Wise, Ignorance, Men

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

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• It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with 'nature's laws', and secondly, resigning himself completely and uncomplainingly to whatever fate may send him. Only by living thus, and not setting too high a value on things which can at any moment be taken away from him, can he discover that true, unshakeable peace and contentment to which ambition, luxury and above all avarice are among the greatest obstacles.

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  Taken, Mean, Ambition

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• A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

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  Coward, Thrifty, Cautious

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• Everything hangs on one's thinking.

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  Attitude, Thinking

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• He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Helping Others

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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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• No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

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  Laughter, Laughing, Laughable

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

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• What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.

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  Men, Humanity, Raises

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• After death there is nothing.

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  After Death

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• I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

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  Communication, Language, Persons

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• Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.

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  Motivational, Men, Thinking

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• A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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

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• Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

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  Patience, Calm Mind, Comfort

  "On Tranquility of the Mind". Seneca the Younger's letter to Serenus as translated in William Bell Langsdorf "Tranquillity of Mind and Providence", 1900.

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• The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

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  Money, Adversity, Challenges

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