Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 32

• It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

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  Revenge, Men, Hatred

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• Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

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  Philosophical, Mindfulness, Today

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

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• The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

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  Grief, Philosophical, Men

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• The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

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  Artist, Painting, Pleasure

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• Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.

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  Thanksgiving, Sky, Earth

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• We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.

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  Life, Sight, Blood

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• As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves

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  Struggle, Men, Mind

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• It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.

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  Life, Evil, Company

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• True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

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  Strong, Praise, Thrive

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• It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

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  Men, Medicine, Sick

  Epistulae ad Lucilium CIV

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• Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

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  Science, Giving, Firsts

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• No crime has been without a precedent.

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  Prison, Crime, Precedent

  "Hippolytus, DLIV". DLIV, 1st century.

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• While crime is punished it yet increases.

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  Prison, Crime, Increase

  "Thyestes". XXXI, 1st century.

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• Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.

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  Inspirational, Life, Play

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• It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.

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  Book, Doe, Matter

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• No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

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  Thinking, Climbing, Peaceful

  Epistulae ad Lucilium IV

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• He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.

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  Justice, May, Sides

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• I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.

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  Eye, Men, Judging

  "On the Happy Life". Essay by Seneca the Younger, 58 AD.

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• I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.

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  Inspirational, Ashamed, Ifs

  "On Tranquility of Mind" by Seneca the Younger,

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• The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

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  Greed, Littles, Persons

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• Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.

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  Repeats

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• If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.

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  Time, Add, Another Day

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• He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

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  Poverty, Rich, Made

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• Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

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  Attitude, Mind, Principles

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• We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

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  Wicked, Together, Crowds

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