Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 25

• Time discovers truth.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Time, Truth

  "On Anger". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 45 AD.

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• When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.

  Seneca the Younger

  Modesty, Revive

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• Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

  Seneca the Younger

  Lying, Laughing, Return

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• What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed

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  Progress, Made, My Own

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• In every good man a God doth dwell.

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  Men, Good Man, Very Good

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• Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Men, Chance

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• Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.

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  Needs, Should, Readiness

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• Do what you should, not what you may.

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  May, Should

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• Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Anger, Philosophical

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

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• The more violent the storm the sooner it is over.

  Seneca the Younger

  Storm, Violent

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• Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.

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  Sick, Together, Vices

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• There is no genius free from some tincture of madness

  Seneca the Younger

  Genius, Madness, Genius And Madness

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• The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

  Seneca the Younger

  Anger, Antidote

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

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• No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.

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  Blow, Wind, Goal

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• There is no power greater than true affection.

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  Affection, True Affection, Greater

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• A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.

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  Dwarves, Climbing, Mountain

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• Resistance to oppression is second nature.

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  Resistance, Oppression

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• A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.

  Seneca the Younger

  Education, Teacher, Men

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• Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Past, Three

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• The anger of those in authority is always weighty.

  Seneca the Younger

  Authority

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• There is no evil without its compensation.

  Seneca the Younger

  Evil, Compensation

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• It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.

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  Failing, Impulse

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• The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

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  Art, Masters, Servant

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• It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.

  Seneca the Younger

  Knowledge, Useless, Useless Knowledge

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• A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fear, Philosophical, Light

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

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