Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 24

• Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?

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  Beauty, Rely Upon, Fleeting

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• Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.

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  Men, Wife, Infidelity

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• Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Overcoming, May

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• A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.

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  Love Is

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• Speech is the index of the mind.

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  Mind, Speech

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• In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

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  Nature, Long, Ashes

  "Quæstionum Naturalium". Book by Seneca the Younger, Book III. 27,

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• If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

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  Philosophical, Loss, Animal

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• No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

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  Being Happy, Integrity, Lying

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

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• Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

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  Life, Spring, New Beginnings

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• Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.

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  History, World, Matter

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• Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

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  Justice, Guilt, Bars

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• Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

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  Running, Thinking, People

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• Time is the greatest remedy for anger.

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  Time, Remedy

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• No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.

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  Men, Credit, Favors

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• Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

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  Real, Philosophical, Feels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.

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  Limits, Unstable, Position

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• Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

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  Greatness, Men, Pieces

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• We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.

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  God, Born, Monarchy

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• On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!

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  God, Nature, Stars

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• As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.

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  Latin, Long, Humane

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• The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all that is sought in pardoning. He will spare some and watch over some, because of their youth, and others on account of their ignorance. His clemency will not fall short of justice, but will fulfill it perfectly.

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  Forgiveness, Wise, Fall

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• War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.

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  Mother, Sweet, War

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• Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

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  Philosophical, Succeed, Virtue

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

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• Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.

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  Philosophy, Giving, Advice

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• Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

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  Life, Evil, Fields

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