Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 13

• The abundance of books is distraction

  Seneca the Younger

  Book, Abundance, Distraction

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• Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

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  Life, Long, Wells

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

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• I would rather be sick than idle.

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  Sick, Idle

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• Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

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  Men, Spinning, Crash

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• In war there is no prize for runner-up.

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  War, Philosophical, Runners

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• Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

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  Toil, Talent, Strive

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• Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.

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  Distance, Adversity, Sides

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• The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.

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  Relaxation, Mind, Stronger

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• To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.

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  Failure, Errors, Devil

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• Do everything as in the eye of another.

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  Eye, Vision

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• A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.

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  Mind, Kingdoms, Lord

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• As many servants so many enemies.

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  Enemy, Servant

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• Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.

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  Love, Sorrow, Speak

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• Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

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  Work Out, Desire, Misery

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• I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.

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  Equal

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• Real improvement is of slow growth only.

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  Real, Growth, Improvement

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• The whole discord of this world consists in discords.

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  World, Discord, Contention

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• Be harsh with yourself at times.

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  Reflection, Harsh

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• What you think is the summit is only a step up

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  Thinking, Steps, Step Up

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• You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wind

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• It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

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  Use, Littles, Ill

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• A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.

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  Dwarves, Mountain, Height

  "Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium". Book by Seneca the Younger,

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• We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.

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  Fortune, Ifs

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• He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.

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  Kindness, Ungrateful, Return

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 393-94, De Beneficiis, III. 1, 1922.

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• Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

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  Friendship, Best Friend, Encouraging

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