Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 37

• There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

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  Needs, May, Helping

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• No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.

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  Men, Return, He Man

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• While you teach, you learn.

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  Inspirational, Teach

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• Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.

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  Sad, Men, Doe

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• The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.

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  Teacher, Pilots, Sail

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• Whom they have injured they also hate.

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  Hate, Injured

  "On Anger". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 45 AD.

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• Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.

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  Rivers, Fire, Darkness

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• I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body.

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  Husband, Clothes, Wife

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• Nemo tam divos habuit faventes,
  Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri.
  Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.

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  Time, Promise, Nemo

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• Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis.
  No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.

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  Time, Wicked, Too Short

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• The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.

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  Vices, Employment, Active

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• Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine.... We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little.

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  Drinking, Wine, Sobriety

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• Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

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  Fall, Punishment, Penalties

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• Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.

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  Men, Mind, Innocence

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• Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.

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  Crime, Recoil

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• He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.

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  Sins Not, Sin, Sinner

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• The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.

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  Long, Mind, Doe

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• You roll my log, and I will roll yours.

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• True love hates and will not bear delay.

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  Life, Hate, Delay

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• Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

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  Happiness

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• Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

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  Fate, Men, Order

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• Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.

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  Gratitude, Virtue, Profit

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• Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

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  Inspirational, Fate, Destiny

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• Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

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  Return, Modesty, Knows

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• What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper.

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  Men, Offering, Issues

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