Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 41

• Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sympathy, Grief, Doe

  "Troades" by Seneca the Younger, 786, 1st century.

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• To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.

  Seneca the Younger

  Country, Father, Patriotism

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 584-87, Octavia, 444, 1922.

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• He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.

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  May, Doe, Praise

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 624-25, Octavia, 454, 1922.

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• The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Done, May

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• God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.

  Seneca the Younger

  Firsts, Repentance, Repent

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 665-66, De Beneficiis, VI. 23, 1922.

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• He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Safety, Trouble, Refuse

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 816, Oedipus, CCXIII, 1922.

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• Every change of place becomes a delight.

  Seneca the Younger

  Delight, Variety

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• It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Ambition, Evil, Quality

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• The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late.

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  Latin, Too Late, Arena

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• The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.

  Seneca the Younger

  Relaxation, Mind, May

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• Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.

  Seneca the Younger

  War, Tyrants, Historical

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• Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Vices, Leisure

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• The voice is nothing but beaten air.

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  Air, Voice, Beaten

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 840-41, Naturalinum Quæstionum, Book II. 29, 1922.

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• We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

  Seneca the Younger

  Errors, Long, Suffering

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 871-82, Of Benefits, Book V, Chapter XXV, Epigram 67, 1922.

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• It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

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  Writing, Thinking, Deceit

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• It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.

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  Dignity, Easier, Grows

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• The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Air, Voice

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• The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

  Seneca the Younger

  Guilt, Faces, Betray

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 345-46, Thyestes, CCCXXX, 1922.

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• He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

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  Guilt, Free Will, Guilty

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 345-46, Hercules Oetaeus, 886, 1922.

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• Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride

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  Pride, Cost, Hunger

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• We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

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  Loss, Justice, Honor

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 462-63, Agamemnon, CXII, 1922.

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• The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

  Seneca the Younger

  Misery, Wretched

  "Hercules Œtæus", 754, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 517-18, 1922.

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• Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.

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  Men, Fire, Brave

  "De Providentia", V, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 517-18, 1922.

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• Money has yet to make anyone rich.

  Seneca the Younger

  Motivational, Rich

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• There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.

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  Blessing, House, Atheism

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