Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 10

• There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

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  Courage, Men, World

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

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• The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

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  Luxury, Simplicity, Effort

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• Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.

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  Death, Freedom, Political

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• The worse a person is the less he feels it.

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  Awareness, Feels, Self Awareness

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• The way to good conduct is never too late.

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  Too Late, Way, Never Too Late

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• 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

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• Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

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  Inspirational, Reason, Heal

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• Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.

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  Endurance, Prowess, Shows

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• If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

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  Inspirational, Art, Men

  "De Brevitate, XX" by Seneca the Younger, 49 AD.

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• There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.

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  Confidence, Blessed, Blessing

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• Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.

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  Delay, Favour, Flight

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• A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.

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  Blessing, Heaven, Mind

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• It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

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  Inspirational, Greatness, What Matters

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• He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.

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  Doe, Praise, Pedigree

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• Those alone are wise who know how to love.

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  Love, Wise, Know How

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• Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

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  Happy Life, Hands, Weight

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

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  Nature, Ignorance, Environmental

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• Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

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  Success, Powerful, Military

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

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• Necessity is stronger than duty.

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  Stronger, Duty

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• A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.

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  Teaching, Learning, Lessons

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• Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

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  Death, Sorrow, Debt

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• Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.

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  Satisfaction, Enjoy, Satisfied

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• Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

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  Practice, Training, Firsts

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• Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

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  Happy Life, Perfect, Virtue

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• We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!

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  Heart, Thinking, Views

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