Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 22

• What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

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  Struggle, Choices, Littles

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• Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

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  Love, Friendship, Benefits

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium", XXXV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.

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  Letting Go, Tutor, Thyself

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• He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.

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  Inspirational, Way, Ends

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• What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

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  Self Esteem, Thinking, Attachment

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• A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

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  Prayer, People, Justice

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• He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

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  Family, Deeds, Ancestry

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

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• We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.

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  Dirty, Men, People

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• Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.

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  Gratitude, Men, He Man

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• Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

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  Hate, Hateful, Despise

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• Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

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  Sheep, Tree, Lightning

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• No possession is gratifying without a companion.

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  Companionship, Companion, Possession

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 124-25, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, VI, 1922.

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• The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

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  Inspirational, Time, Past

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• The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.

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  Dwelling, Body, Host

  Epistulae ad Lucilium CXX

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• He worships God who knows him.

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  Worship, Worship God, Knows

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• All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.

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  Hands, Pits, Let Down

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• Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.

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  Death

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• What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

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  Nature, Sweat, Easy

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

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• Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.

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  Men, Want, Return

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• It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.

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  Faults, Youth

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• The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!

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  Keys, Want, Asks

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• True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.

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  Friends, True Friend, Delight

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• The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.

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  Faith, Men, Thinking

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• He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.

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  Foresight

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