Seneca the Younger Quotes

• Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.

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  Men, Groups, Achieve

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• No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

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  Adversity, Men, Unhappy

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• We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

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  Reality, Imagination, Suffering

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• Don't stumble over something behind you.

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  Motivational, Wisdom, Inspiration

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• The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

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  Important, Gains, Problem

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• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

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  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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

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• If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.

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  Wise, School, Men

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• Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

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  Life, Philosophical, Men

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

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• No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

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  Meaningful, Wind, Roots

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• Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

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  Wise, Religious, Atheist

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• The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

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  Spiritual, Greatest Wealth, Simplicity

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• True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

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  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

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  Inspirational, Wise, Men

  "On the Good Life". 26:1,

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• No man ever became wise by chance.

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  Wise, Men, Chance

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• You are your choices.

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  Inspirational, Life, Choices

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• We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

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  Life, Procrastination, Acting

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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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• The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

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  Letting Go, Time, Future

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• The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.

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  Quiet, Speak, Great Things

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• Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.

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  Inspirational, Learning, People

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• He is most powerful who governs himself.

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  Powerful, Most Powerful

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• Whatever begins, also ends.

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  Time, Ends, End Times

  "Seneca's Consolations". Book by Seneca the Younger, 40–45 AD..

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• It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.

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  Too Late, Never Too Late, Late

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• What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

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• A good mind possesses a kingdom.

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  Wisdom, Intelligence, Mind

  "Thyestes", Act II. 380 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 513-516), 1922.

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