Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 27

• He that does good to another does good also to himself.

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  Teamwork, Kindness, Philosophical

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

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• Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

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  Best Friend

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• If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.

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  Inspirational, Wind, Sailing

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• This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

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  Life, Spiritual, Home

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• Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.

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  Nature, Secret, Doe

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• The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.

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  Real, Action, Compensation

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• All art is but imitation of nature.

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  Art, Philosophical, Garden

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

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• Mercy often inflicts death.

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  Mercy

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 509-10, Troades, 329, 1922.

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• Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.

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  Philosophy, Humanity, Unhappy

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• Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor.

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  Death, Punishment, Favors

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• Life is short and art is long.

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  Art, Life Is Short, Long

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• That which takes effect by chance is not an art.

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  Art, Chance, Chances Are

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• An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.

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  Time, Cities, Age

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• Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.

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  Christian, Men, Giving

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• It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.

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  Struggle, Fate, Destiny

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• A troubled countenance oft discloses much.

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  Countenance

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• Life without the courage for death is slavery.

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  Courage, Slavery

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• Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.

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  Genius, Accepted

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• Fine conduct is always spontaneous.

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  Spontaneous, Behavior, Fine

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• No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

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  Book, Profitable

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• Men practice war; beasts do not.

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  War, Men, Practice

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• I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.

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  Sacrifice

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• Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

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  Philosophical, Fate, Names

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

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  Prayer, Wish, Wish You

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius". Letter XCV, line 1, c. 65 AD.

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• The profit on a good action is to have done it.

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  Done, Deeds, Action

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