Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 28

• We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.

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  Prayer, Blessing, Praying

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• There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of it; and there is not any minute of our lives wherein we may not reasonably expect it. Nay, it is but a momen'ts work, the parting of soul and body. What a shame is it then to stand in fear of anything so long that is over so soon!

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  Death, Soul And Body, Long

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• As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.

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  Laughter, Fate, Hands

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• It is opportunity that makes the thief.

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  Opportunity, Temptation, Thieves

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• One must steer, not talk.

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  Philosophical, Steers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.

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  Voice, Acting, Noise

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• You talk one way, you live another.

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  Hypocrite, Way, One Way

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• Know thyself; this is the great object.

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  Know Thyself, Objects, Knows

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• Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves; solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time

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  Loss, Men, Sick

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• Only a great man, believe me, and one whose excellence rises far above human failings, will not allow anything to be stolen from his own span of time, and his life is very long precisely because he has devoted to himself entirely any time that became available. None of it lay uncultivated and idle, none was under another man's control, for guarding it most jealously, he found nothing worth exchanging for his own precious time.

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  Believe, Men, Long

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• It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

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  Men, Good Man, Mind

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• Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.

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  Said

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• There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

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  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

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• Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

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  God, Philosophical, Void

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.

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  Mind, Lines, Citing

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• That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.

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  Art, Achieve, Effects

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• We learn not for life but for the debating-room.

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  Competition, Rooms

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• Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.

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  Eye, Men, Example

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• He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.

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  World, Greedy, Resignation

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• Virtue is nothing else than right reason

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  Philosophical, Virtue, Reason

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• Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.

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  Patience, Bears, Ill

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• Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

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  Imitation, Well Said, Wells

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• Revenge is an inhuman word.

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  Revenge, Inhuman

  "De Ira". Book by Seneca the Younger, II. 31, 45 AD.

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• Truth never perishes.

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  Truth

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• To be everywhere is to be nowhere.

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  Inspiring, Focus, Action

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