Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 16

• There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Attitude

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• Self-denial is the best riches.

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  Self, Denial, Riches

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• The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you

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  Men, Evil, Worst

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

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  Wise, Wisdom, Freedom

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• Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged

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  Hate, Humans, Traits

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• A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

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  Grateful, Men, Favors

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• A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.

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  Men, Soul, Sound

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• There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

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  Insanity, Genius, Spices

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 396-97, De Animi Tranquillitate, XV. 10, 1922.

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• I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

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  Life, God, Heart

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• For greed, all nature is too little.

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  Nature, Philosophical, Greed

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• Every journey has an end.

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  Journey, Goal, Ends

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• It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.

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  Blood, Hands, Iron

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• What else is nature but God?

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  Inspiration, Humor, Insight

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• The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.

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  Men, Heaven, Good Man

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• A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

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  Happiness, Happy, Philosophical

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• In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases.

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  Adversity, Giving, Teeth

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• Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.

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  Brave, Coward, Fortune

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• Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.

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  Moments, Pleasure, Charm

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• To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.

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  Loss, Evil, Endeavour

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• The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.

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  Misery, Kind, Spiteful

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• For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

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  Freedom, Men, Simplicity

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• Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.

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  Men, Should Have, Years

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• The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.

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  Inspirational, Fate, Guides

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• So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.

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  Wish, Inferiors, Superiors

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• Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.

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  Time, Attitude, Adversity

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