Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 35

• For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

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  Reason, Divine, Whole

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• Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.

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  Speak, Guides, Admire

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• If you are wise,
  You will mingle one thing with the other-
  Not hoping without doubt;
  Not doubting without hope.

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  Wise, Doubt, Without Hope

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• What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.

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  Men, Differences, Essentials

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• It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.

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  Men, Frustrated, Wish

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• When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.

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• See what daily exercise does for one.

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  Exercise, Energy, Doe

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• I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.

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  Travel, Land, World

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• It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

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  Inspirational, Men, Giving

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

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• Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

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  Love, Learning, Knowledge

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• There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

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  Punishment, Wickedness, Deeds

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• Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.

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  Gratitude, Kindness, Grateful

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 336-37, De Beneficiis, II. 25, 1922.

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• No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 350-52, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, XLVIII, 1922.

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• Home joys are blessed of heaven.

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  Blessed, Home, Joy

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• Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.

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  Quiet, Length, Weary

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• We pardon familiar vices.

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  Vices, Pardon, Familiar

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• Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

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  Men, Good Man, Wrinkle In Time

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• The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

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  Errors, Firsts, Steps

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• Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

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  Unjust, Dominion, Eternal

  "Medea". Book by Seneca the Younger, 62 AD.

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• A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.

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  Library, Wander, Learners

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• The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.

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  Life, Wise, Men

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• A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

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  Birthday, Done, Benefits

  "De Beneficiis" by Seneca the Younger, I. 6, 63 AD.

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• He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.

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  Life, Sweet, Poison

  "Hippolytus", CXXXIV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 464-484), 1922.

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• If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

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  Power, Judgment, Command

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• See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

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  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Philosophical

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

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