Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 21

• We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

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  Body, Should, Ought

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• Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

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  Inspirational, Life, Death

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• Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

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  Wise, Ignorance, Men

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

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• Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.

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  Favour, Speak, Granted

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• The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.

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  Kindness, Taken, Mean

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• Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.

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  Good Life, Long, Soul

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• How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.

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  Darkness, Mind, Doe

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 637-38, De Brevitate Vitæ, XIII, 1922.

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• You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.

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  Winning, Ideas, Numbers

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• The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.

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  Taken, Heaven, Soul

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• God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.

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  God, Eye, Men

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• Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.

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  Money, Party, Long

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• Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: " Is this the condition that I feared?"

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  Fear, Numbers, Dresses

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• The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

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  Wise, Men, Hands

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• Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.

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  Wish, Just Live

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• The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.

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  Wise, Mind, Able

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• Modesty forbids what the law does not.

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  Law, Doe, Modesty

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

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• The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.

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  Soul, Delight, Divinity

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• To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand

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  Hands, Sweat, Sailing

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• If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

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  Wisdom, Delight, Shut Up

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• Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

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  Men, Deceit, Distrust

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• The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that are not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace of another, who are under orders in case of the freest things in the world-loving and hating. If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own.

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  Hate, Sleep, Order

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• The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.

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  Destiny, Drag, Guides

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• Golden roofs break men's rest.

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  Men, Golden, Wealth

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• True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.

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  True Joy, Laughing, Brave

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• There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

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  Life, Motivational, Wisdom

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