Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 20

• The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

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  Fate, Drag, Willing

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 261-65, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, CVII, 1922.

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• Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fear

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• You should rather suppose that those are involved in worthwhile duties who wish to have daily as their closest friends Zeno, Pythagoras, Democritus and all the other high priests of liberal studies, and Aristotle and Theophrastus. None of these will be too busy to see you, none of these will not send his visitor away happier and more devoted to himself, none of these will allow anyone to depart empty-handed. They are at home to all mortals by night and by day.

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  Home, Night, Wish

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• Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

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  Dream, People, Vices

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• It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.

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  Luxury, Example, Done

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• Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

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  Retirement, Letters, Retiring

  "A Little Book of Aphorisms". Book by Frederick B Wilcox, p. 173, 1947.

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• One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.

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  Friendship, Friends

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• We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.

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  Wells

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• We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.

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  Past, Life And Death, Looking Forward

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• ...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.

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  Men, Bravery, Admirable

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• Disease is not of the body but of the place.

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  Advice, Body, Disease

  Epistulae ad Lucilium

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• In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

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  Time, Lying, Philosophy

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• The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.

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  Book, Simple, Giving

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• We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

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  War, Mad, Justice

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter XCV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1925.

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• A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

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  Food, History, Independence

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• I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

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  Life, Distance, Inspire

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• Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

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  Men, Doors, Life And Death

  'Phoenissae' l. 152

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• I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

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  Desire, Done, Care

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• It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business.

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  Wise, Men, Long

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• There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

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  Wisdom, Men, Slavery

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• Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

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  Freedom, Mean, Lists

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• Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.

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  Men, Ornaments, Elegance

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• It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make each thing one's own, not depend on the text and always to look back to the teacher. "Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this." Let there be space between you and the book.

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  Teacher, Memories, Book

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• As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

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  Love, Life, Time

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• ... frugality makes a poor man rich.

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  Men, Rich, Poor

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