Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 34

• Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

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  Superstitions, Worship, Worship God

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• The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.

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  Time, Looks, Velocity

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• He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.

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  Hands, Tyrants, Iron

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• An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.

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  School, Men, Ridiculous

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• Crime requires further crime to conceal it.

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  Crime

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• If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.

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  Fitness, Health, Numbers

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• Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

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  Office, Done, Charity

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• It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.

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  Life, Live Life, Tedious

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium", XXIII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

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  Country, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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• Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

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  Grief, Light, Dumb

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• Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

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  Luxury, People, Simplicity

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• We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust it; the other will make our strength flabby and watery. It is better to have recourse to them alternately, and to blend one with the other, so that the fruits of one's reading may be reduced to concrete form by the pen.

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  Reading, Writing, Advice

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• This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans: We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding, whereas they believe that clouds collide in order to create lightning. Since they attribute everything to gods, they are led to believe not that events have a meaning because they have happened, but that they happen in order to express a meaning.

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  Believe, Clouds, Order

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• The wish for healing has always been half of health.

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  Inspiration, Healing, Health

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

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• No man was ever wise by chance.

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  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82., 1922.

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• To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.

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  Wind, Vision, Doe

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• What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.

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  Real, Heart, Blessing

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• A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

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  Men, Hands, Bird

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• Where fear is, happiness is not.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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

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• Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.

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  Sick, Disease, Facts

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• Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.

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  Brother, Mind, Wicked

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• Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.

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  Firsts, Remedy, Extremes

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• He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.

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  May, Thanks, Wells

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• Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.

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  Light, Dumb, Care

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• While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

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  Life, Fate, Years

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