Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 12

• What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved

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  Inspirational, Goal, Mind

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• A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty

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  Freedom, Liberty, Moderation

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• I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

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  Communication, Language, Persons

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• Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.

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  Dream, Men, Indulge In

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• No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.

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  Country, Patriotism, Size

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• Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

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  Education, Giving Up, Science

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• It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.

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  Mind, Injury, Proof

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• The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

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  Death, Evil, Dying

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• No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

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  Laughter, Laughing, Laughable

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• My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.

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  Teaching, Writing, Happy Life

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• It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with 'nature's laws', and secondly, resigning himself completely and uncomplainingly to whatever fate may send him. Only by living thus, and not setting too high a value on things which can at any moment be taken away from him, can he discover that true, unshakeable peace and contentment to which ambition, luxury and above all avarice are among the greatest obstacles.

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  Taken, Mean, Ambition

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• Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

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  Men, Joy, Littles

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• Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.

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  Hate, Men, Vices

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• 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

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• Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor

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  Inspirational, Travel, Vigor

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• Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.

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  Educational, Soul, Words Of Wisdom

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• Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain

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  Words Of Wisdom, Speech, Should

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• Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

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  Fear, Bother, Thoughts Of Death

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• That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.

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  Delight, Difficulty, Has Beens

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• Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.

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  People, Fancy, Prison

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• Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

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  Life, Happiness, Death

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• The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.

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  Anger, World, Limits

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• The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred.

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  Art, Kings, Hate

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• A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

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  Coward, Thrifty, Cautious

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• To the believers it is true.
  To the wise it is false.
  To the leaders it is useful.

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  Inspirational, Life, Wise

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