Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 36

• It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

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  Differences, Sin, Deals

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

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• No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

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  Hate, Hatred, Despise

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• The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.

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  Life, Wise, Simple

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• We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. [We must learn to control and focus the force of our imagination on the good, bright side so it is positive and constructive helping ourselves and others, rather than let its force focus on the bad, dark side so it is negative and destructive hurting ourselves and others!]

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  Hurt, Dark, Reality

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• No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

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  Action, Willpower, Blameless

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• Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.

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  Sea, Land, Hug

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• To meditate an injury is to commit one.

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  Injury, Commit

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• The young man must store up, the old man must use.

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  Men, Use, Stores

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• Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est.
  The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.

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  Life, Journey, Ads

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• That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

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  Inspiring, Philosophical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No one can wear a mask for very long.

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  Long, Wearing A Mask, Mask

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• There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.

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  Satisfaction, Companion

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 690-91, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, VI, 1922.

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• Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.

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  Grief, Men, Weight

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• The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor; for it is dismissed with small payment if you give it only what you owe, and not as much as you can.

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  Giving, Creditors, Stomach

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• Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.

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  Long, Secrecy, Concealment

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 695-96, Oedipus, 826, 1922.

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• Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.

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  Travel, Ties, Hospitality

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• We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur

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  Understanding, Whole

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• Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

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  Plato, Philosophy, Science

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• However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

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  Brotherhood, May, Common

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• People do not die - they kill themselves.

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  Philosophy, People, Dies

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• Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

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  Work, Joyful, Fortune

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• Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

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  War, Law, Liberty

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• Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.

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  Death, Mean, Blessing

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• There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound.

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  Wind, Knows, Fairs

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• The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?

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  Satisfaction, Kind, Speak

  Letter 7, translated by Robin Campbell,

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