Seneca the Younger Quotes About 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

• Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Stoic, Motto

• For greed, all nature is too little.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Philosophical, Greed

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• Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Ignorance, Environmental

• Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

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  Nature, Long, Ashes

  "Quæstionum Naturalium". Book by Seneca the Younger, Book III. 27,

• True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

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  Nature, Law, Environmental

• If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

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  Inspirational, Life, Nature

• The time will come when diligent research over periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden...Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memories of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has something for every age to investigate. nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Sorry, Memories

• Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Knowledge, Given

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium", CXX in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 419-423), 1922.

• What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

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  Nature, Sweat, Easy

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• Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.

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  Nature

• Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

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  Nature, Pride, Doe

• Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Secret, Doe

• On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!

  Seneca the Younger

  God, Nature, Stars

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