Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 30

• What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

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  Death, Men, Joy

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• Love of action is not industry.

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  Fortune Cookie, Action, Industry

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• It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.

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  Please Me, Done, Lost

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• A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.

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  Kings, Moving, Heart

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• Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.

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  Law, Fixed, Certain

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• This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.

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  Men, Law, Benefits

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• No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.

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  Age, One More Day, Old Age

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• Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.

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  Anger, Two, Betrayed

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• He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.

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  Style, Riding, Boast

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• A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.

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  Comfort, Crowds, Companionship

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 124-25, Consol. ad Marc.', 12, 5, 1922.

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• Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

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  Reading, Beneficial, Delightful

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• Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.

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  Bears, Feels, Humans

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• How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

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  Honor, Action, Destination

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• Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

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  Moments, Appearance, Mortality

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• It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.

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  Sometimes, Mental Illness, Madmen

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• Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.

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  Danger, Approach

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• A hated government does not long survive.

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  Government, Long, Doe

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• It is well to be born either a king or a fool.

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  Kings, Fool, Born

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• Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly.

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  Grief, Air, Offensive

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

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• We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.

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  Vessel, Steers

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• ...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in order to have enough....You geometers can calculate the area of circles, can reduce any given shape to a square, can state the distances separating starts. Nothing's outside your scope when it comes to measurement. Well, if you're such an expert, measure a man's soul; tell me how large or how small that is. You can define a straight line; what use is that to you if you've no idea what straightness means in life?

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  Distance, Teaching, Mean

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• Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.

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  Loyalty, Money, Fidelity

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• It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

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  Philosophical, Excellence, Quality

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius". Book by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, transl. Richard Mott Gummere, Letter XLV: On sophistical argumentation, line 1, 1920.

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• Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

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  Philosophical, Mind, Speech

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

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• Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

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  Death, Suicidal, Punishment

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