Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 9

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

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  Life, Giving, Hours

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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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• In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.

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  God, Void, Turns

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

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  Men, Thinking, Generations

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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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• 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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• Necessity is stronger than duty.

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  Stronger, Duty

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• The abundance of books is distraction

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  Book, Abundance, Distraction

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• One crime has to be concealed by another.

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  Philosophical, Prison, Crime

  "Phaedra". Tragedy by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, DCCXXI, c. 290 AD.

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• Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.

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  Age, And Love, Use

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• If virtue precede us every step will be safe.

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  Safe, Steps, Virtue

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• We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.

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  Blame, Bosoms, Sinning

  "De Ira". Book by Seneca the Younger, III. 26, 45 AD.

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• Everything hangs on one's thinking.

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  Attitude, Thinking

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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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• While we wait for life, life passes

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  Waiting

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• The whole discord of this world consists in discords.

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  World, Discord, Contention

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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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• You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

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  Inspirational, Soul, Climate

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• After death there is nothing.

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  After Death

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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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• 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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• 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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• A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

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  Coward, Thrifty, Cautious

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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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