Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 33

• It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

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  Long, Care, Long Life

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• Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

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  Courage, Adversity, Men

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• No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.

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  Wisdom, Long, Politics

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• Unjust rule does not last forever.

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  Forever, Unjust, Politics

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• Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.

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  Asking, Debt, Pay

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• The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.

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  Men, Heaven, Noble

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• Consider an enemy may become a friend.

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  Enemy, May

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• If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.

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  Fear, Thinking, All Things

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• The most happy ought to wish for death.

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  Death, Wish, Ought

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• The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

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  Evil, Wickedness, Way

  "Agamemnon". Book by Seneca the Younger (line CXV), 1st century AD.

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• He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.

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  Grieving, Sorrow, Causes

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• Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.

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  Crime, Prudence

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• Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

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  Retirement, Amusement, Tombs

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• It is pleasant at times to play the madman.

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  Play, Madmen, Pleasant

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• Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

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  Law, Way, Given

  'Epistulae Morales' letter 70, sect. 14

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• Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

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  Men

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• That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.

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  Fortune, Given

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• Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself.

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  Real, Heart, Long

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• Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?

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  Silence, Silence Is

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• Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it.

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  Silence, Favors, Silent

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• A great fortune is a great slavery.

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  Money, Philosophical, Slavery

  "Ad Polybium De Consolatione" by Seneca the Younger, Ch. VI, line 5, 40–45 AD.

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• But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

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  Life, Success, Money

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• Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

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  Hope, Despair, Should

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• He has committed the crime who profits by it.

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  Philosophical, Poverty, Crime

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

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• Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.

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  War, Men, Outcomes

  "The Madness of Hercules". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 54 AD.

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