Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 19

• No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.

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  Merit, Mere

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• Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not be doubted that his part contributes to the generation, and adds much to that which has been collected.

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  Mind, Add, Generations

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• He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

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  Doe, Ill, Wells

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• Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

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  Sweet, Memories, Bears

  "The Madness of Hercules". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 54 AD.

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• Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

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  Giving, Judgement, Blame

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• To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

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  Inspirational, People, Simplicity

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• What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

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  Men, Doe, Demand

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• It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.

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  Character, Personality, Desire

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• What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

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  Funny, Inspiring, Sarcastic

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• Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.

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  Overcoming, Fidelity

  "Agamemnon". Book by Seneca the Younger, 287,

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• Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.

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  Philosophy, Blow, Belief

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• The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

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  Adversity, Men, Two

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• Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

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  Intelligence, Mediocrity, Helping

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• Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.

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  Eye, Tears, Dry

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• Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.

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  Freedom, Liberty, Littles

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• The language of truth is unvarnished enough.

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  Language, Truth Is, Enough

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• Nobody becomes guilty by fate.

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  Fate, Guilt, Guilty

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• What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

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  Life, Death, Wise

  "Moral Essays: Ad Marciam De Consolatione". Translated by J. W. Basore,

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• Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.

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  Practice, Advice, Training

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• Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

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  Anger, Giving, Judgement

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• An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.

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  Mind, Action, Disposition

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• Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.

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  Servitude

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• On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.

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  Lying, Doe, Well Known

  'Thyestes' sc. 2, chorus (translation by Miller)

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• With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

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  Money, Men, Littles

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• Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.

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  Real, Please Me, Matter

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