Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 39

• Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law

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  Retirement, Law, People

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• You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.

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  Success, Wisdom, Learning

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• If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a veil of pleached and intertwining branches, then the loftiness of the forest, the seclusion of the spot and your marvel at the thick unbroken shade in the midst of the open spaces, will prove to you the presence of deity.

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  Space, Views, Sky

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• Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!

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  Girl, Art, Pain

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• Lack of desire is the greatest riches.

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  Desire, Riches, Wealth

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• Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.

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  Virtue, Ifs, Values

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• The part of life which we really live is short.

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  Life, Short Life, Parts Of Life

  "De Brevitate Vitae" by Seneca the Younger, II, 49 AD.

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• The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

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  Philosophical, Firsts, Steps

  "The Road to Begin Your Life". Book by Randall Dickau, p.58, September 27, 2007.

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• When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that 'he hadn't come to Asia with the intention of accepting whatever they cared to give him, but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.' Philosophy, likewise, tells all other occupations: 'It's not my intention to accept whatever time is leftover from you; you shall have, instead, what I reject.' Give your whole mind to her.

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  Time, Philosophy, Caring

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• Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times.
  [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.

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  Men, Luxury, Vices

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• Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.

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  Angel, Listening, Speak

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• A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.

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  Disease, Break, Concealment

  Epistulae ad Lucilium LVI

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• Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.

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  Long, Duration, Violence

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• Who timidly requests invites refusal.

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  Refusal, Request, Invites

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• We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere outside the world we know-when every day we're running into our own storms, spiritual storms, and driven by vice into all the troubles that Ulysses ever knew.

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  Running, Spiritual, Storm

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• Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

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  Ambition, Knowing, Mind

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• Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?

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  Hero, Ambition, Vanity

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• That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.

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  Desire, Needs, Want

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• Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.

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  Foundation, Moderation, Unstable

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• A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

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  Honesty, Long, Solitude

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• One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.

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  Death, Dying, Wonder

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• Death is a release from and an end of all pains.

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  Death, Pain, Release

  "Of Consolation to Marcia". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1635.

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• Injustice never rules forever.

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  Justice, Forever, Injustice

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• Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.

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  Happiness, Philosophy, Real

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• He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.

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  Laughter, Mind, Tears

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