Seneca the Younger Quotes About Wisdom

• Don't stumble over something behind you.

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  Motivational, Wisdom, Inspiration

• The best cure for anger is delay.

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  Wisdom, Delay, Cures

• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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  Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

• 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

• A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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

• While we are postponing, life speeds by.

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  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

• 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.

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  Life, Wisdom, Nature

• There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

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  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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

• If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  'Epistulae ad Lucilium' letter 71, sect. 3

• There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

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  Wisdom, Men, Slavery

• No man was ever wise by chance.

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  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82., 1922.

• If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

• 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.

• Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Thank You

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

• Luck never made a man wise.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

• If you would judge, understand.

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  Wisdom, Judging, Understanding

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

• There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

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  Wisdom, Courage, Fall

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

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  Wisdom, Future, Way

• The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Freedom

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

• Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

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  Life, Wisdom, Color

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

• He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

• If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

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  Wisdom, Restriction, Should

• There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Attitude

• No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.

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  Wisdom, Long, Politics

• If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wisdom, Delight, Shut Up

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