Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 29

• The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.

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  Israel, Law, Land

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• The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.

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  Military, Soldier, And Love

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• It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.

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  Kindness, Grateful, Men

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• Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.

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  Employment, Indolence, Stagnation

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• If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so.

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Be Grateful

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• If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life that is all made up for show; for it is torturous to be constantly watching oneself and be fearful of being caught out of our usual role. And we are never free from concern if we think that every time anyone looks at us he is always taking-our measure; for many things happen that strip off our pretence against our will, and, though all this attention to self is successful, yet the life of those who live under a mask cannot be happy and without anxiety.

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  Fashion, Integrity, Successful

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• To make a commencement requires a mental effort.

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  Effort, Commencement

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• It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.

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  Ignorant, Where You Are

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• When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

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  Science, Sky, Tree

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• It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

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  Life, Waste, Shortness

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• I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.

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  Kindness

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• He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it

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  May, Sin, Command

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• The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

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  Lying, Guilt, Prison

  "Troades". DCCCLXX,

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• The expression of truth is simplicity.

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  Inspirational, Expression, Simplicity

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• He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

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  Forgiveness, Feelings, Innocent

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• Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.

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  Squares, Coal, Affection

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• Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.

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  Successful, Virtue

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• Simple is the language of truth.

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  Simple, Language

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• Teach the art of living well.

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  Art, Teaching, Live Well

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• There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!

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  Eye, Science, Power

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• The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.

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  Medicine, Pulse, Physicians

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• Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

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  Fate, Men, Wish

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• Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.

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  Prayer, Cost

  "De Beneficiis". II. 1. As quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", 1922.

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• A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. A time will come when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them.

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  Sky, Flying, Single Life

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• Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.

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  Sorry, Discovery, Age

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