Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 4

• Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.

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  Confidence, Courage, Fear

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• Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.

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  Life, Speech, Feels

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• He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

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  Power, Long, Duration

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

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• It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

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  Success, Men, Forever

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• The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

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  Life, Happiness, Future

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• Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

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  Evil, Worry, Anticipation

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• Praise thyself never.

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  Modesty, Praise, Thyself

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• You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

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  Inspirational, Soul, Climate

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• Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Thank You

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

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• He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.

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  Justice, Hearing, Sides

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• Life without the courage to die is slavery.

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  Slavery, Dies

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• To govern was to serve, not to rule.

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  Love, Leadership

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• There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

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  Lying, People, Laughing

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• Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.

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  Example, Attention, Improvement

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• Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.

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  Happiness, Men, Humanity

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• We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

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  Motivational, Caring, Giving

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

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• Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

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  Depressing, Mind, Quality

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• Wisdom comes to no one by chance.

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  Wisdom, Chance

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• No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.

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  Freedom, Men, Flesh

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium", XCII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 294-296), 1922.

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• When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.

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  Life, Sick, Alive

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• No one can keep a mask on long.

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  Long, Mask

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• He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!

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  Kings, Fear, Desire

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• The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

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  Philosophical, Heart, Prosperity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.

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  Greatness, Men, Temptation

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