Seneca the Younger Quotes About Human Nature

• Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Wisdom, Nature

• For greed, all nature is too little.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Philosophical, Greed

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• Man is a social animal.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Animal, Men

  "De Beneficiis" Book VII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 724-725), 1922.

• A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Hands, Bird

• What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Doe, Demand

• Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.

  Seneca the Younger

  Memories, Kindness, Remembrance

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