Seneca the Younger Quotes About Eyes

• Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.

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  Eye, Men, Long

• Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.

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  Heart, Eye, Vision

• When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.

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  Friendship, Eye, Tears

• Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

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  War, Eye, Men

• The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

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  Inspirational, Fall, Optimistic

• There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!

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  Eye, Science, Power

• I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.

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  Eye, Men, Judging

  "On the Happy Life". Essay by Seneca the Younger, 58 AD.

• Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.

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  Eye, Tears, Dry

• Do everything as in the eye of another.

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  Eye, Vision

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

• He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

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  Eye, Ravens, Sheep

• War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.

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  Mother, Sweet, War

• God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.

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  God, Eye, Men

• Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.

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  Eye, Men, Example

• The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kindness, Taken, Mean

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