Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 31

• Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

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  Sadness, Tears, Flow

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• I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.

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  Country, World, Born

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• To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

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  Life, Soul, Ignorant

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• Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.

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  May, Wealth, Fortune

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• Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.

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  Life, Wisdom, Nature

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• A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary

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  Happiness, Stress, Men

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• Ignorance is the cause of fear.

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  Fear, Latin, Ignorance

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• One hand washes the other.

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  Latin, Hands, Unity

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• He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

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  Fear, Too Much, Dread

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• Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

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  Honesty, Character, Class

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• Successful villany is called virtue.

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  Successful, Virtue

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• A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

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  Hatred, Fool, Fools And Foolishness

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• That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

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  Ambition, Pride, Given

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• What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too cheap or too common; and all this is to gratify a fantastical palate.

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  Life, Dog, War

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• Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.

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  Men, Numbers, Slavery

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• Who has more leisure than a worm?

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  Leisure, Worms

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• There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.

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  Gratitude, Benefits, Interpretation

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• The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.

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  Travel, Men, Quiet

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• The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.

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  Egypt, Thieves, Pleasure

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• It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

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  Vices, Virtue

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• The fear of war is worse than war itself.

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  Military, War

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• The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.

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  Men, Order, Unhappy

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• The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

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  Best Friend, Prayer, Inspirational Life

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• Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.

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  And Love, Ends, Prudence

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• When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.

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  Friendship, Eye, Tears

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