Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 18

• Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

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  Life, Age, Care

  "Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium". Book by Seneca the Younger, LXI, c. 65 AD.

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• It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.

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  Mind, Doe, Rich

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• As the world leads we follow.

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  World

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• Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

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  Pain, Badass, Quality

  Epistulae ad Lucilium XCIV

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• It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.

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  Believe, Men, Faults

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• Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

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  Real, Evil, Suffering

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

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• So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

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  Punishment, Energy, Limits

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• Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.

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  Men, Suffering, Ease

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• If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

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  Happiness, Men, Soul

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• Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

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  Philosophical, Danger, Exposure

  "De Providentia", IV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 158-160), 1922.

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• This life is only a prelude to eternity.

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  Life, Eternity, Prelude

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• Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.

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  Loyalty, Military, Heart

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• You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.

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  Long, Should, Knows

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• Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.

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  Adversity, Prosperity, Fidelity

  "Agamemnon". Book by Seneca the Younger, 934,

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• He who is everywhere is nowhere.

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  "Moral Letters to Lucilius, II". Book by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 65 AD.

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• The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.

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  Pain, New Experiences, Evil

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• Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.

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  Law, Written, Unwritten

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• There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.

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  Hero, Self, Denial

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• The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.

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  Greatness, Men, Resolution

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• It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

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  God, Greatness, Men

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• What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.

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  Men, Ungrateful, Thrown

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• When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.

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  Ambition, Progress, Limits

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• Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

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  Needs, Poverty, Avarice

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• Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens; he has left this low-lying region and has soared upwards to that place which receives in its happy bosom the souls set free from the chains of matter. Your brother has not lost the light of day, but has obtained a more enduring light. He has not left us, but has gone on before.

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  Brother, Lying, Light

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• Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

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  Death, Alive, Literature

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