Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 23

• There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

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  Philosophical, Doe, Noble

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• No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

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  Money, Loss, Evil

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• Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

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  Height, Fortune, Casts

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• Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

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  Men, Honor, Assuming

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• God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.

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  Race, Given, Humans

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 311-13, De Beneficiis, IV. 28, 1922.

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• What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?

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  Men, Insanity, Insane

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 396-97, De Ira, II. 26, 1922.

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• All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

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  Laughter, Causes, Weeping

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• The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.

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  Fall, House, Tempest

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• Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

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  Men, Sight, Evil

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• What is true belongs to me!

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  Truth, Philosophical

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• Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

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  Opportunity, Virtue, Calamity

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 518-19, De Providentia, IV, 1922.

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• Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

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  Men, Insanity, Driven

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• Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

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  Fall, Philosophical, Ruins

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• Full of men, vacant of friends.

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  Men, Vacant

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• To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

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  Bears, Habit, Impatience

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• No evil is without its compensation.

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  Evil, Compensation

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• These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.

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  Motivational, Money, Fever

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• Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

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  Too Late, Purses, Economics

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• Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

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  Freedom, Integrity, Responsibility

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• The Germans, a race eager for war.

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  Peace, War, Race

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• Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

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  Inspirational, Slavery, Human Trafficking

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• There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

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  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!

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  Numbers, Would Be, Slavery

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• I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

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  Peace, Home, Character

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• Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.

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  Ease, Given, Weary

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