Seneca the Younger Quotes About Pleasure

• The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

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  Lust, Miserable, Shame

• The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.

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  Gratitude, Law, Done

• We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.

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  Life, Sight, Blood

• The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

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  Artist, Painting, Pleasure

• So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

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  Punishment, Energy, Limits

• Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

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  Wisdom, Future, Way

• As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

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  Love, Life, Time

• The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.

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  Egypt, Thieves, Pleasure

• The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.

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  Men, Heaven, Good Man

• Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.

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  Moments, Pleasure, Charm

• 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

• Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.

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  Excess, Pleasure, Repetition

• Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

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  Lying, Laughing, Return

• There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

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  Ambition, Purple, Luxury

• So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.

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  Hours, Pleasure, Enjoy

• The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.

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  Pain, New Experiences, Evil

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