Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 11

• It is not goodness to be better than the worst.

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  Goodness, Worst

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• The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.

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  Grief, Men, Sorrow

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• No one can have all he desires.

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  Desire

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• We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.

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  Blame, Bosoms, Sinning

  "De Ira". Book by Seneca the Younger, III. 26, 45 AD.

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• Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

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  Philosophical, Heart, Blame

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

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• I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

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  Writing, Men, Ideas

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

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  Nature, Knowledge, Given

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

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• Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.

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  Kindness, Conquer, Ill

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• It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.

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  Sweet, Grief, Solitude

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• A great mind becomes a great fortune.

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  Philosophical, Mind, Great Minds

  "De Clementia". Book by Seneca the Younger,

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• He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.

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  Death, Doe, Want

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• What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

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  Sweet, Suffering, Remember

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• One crime has to be concealed by another.

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  Philosophical, Prison, Crime

  "Phaedra". Tragedy by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, DCCXXI, c. 290 AD.

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• While we wait for life, life passes

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  Waiting

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• Men's language is as their lives.

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  Men, Language

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• That grief is light which can take counsel.

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  Grief, Light

  "Medea". I, 55, 1st century.

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• Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.

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  Thinking

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• Luck never made a man wise.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.

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  Brotherhood, Mutual Love, Body

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• The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.

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  Men, Thinking, Giving

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• The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

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  Happiness, Gratitude, Mind

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• The best ideas are common property.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Ideas

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter XII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

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• The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.

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  Mind, Holy, Pure

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• The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

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  Acquisition, Riches, Faults

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• It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.

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  Causes, Proof

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