Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 42

• We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.

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  Stewards, Insatiable, Liberality

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• He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.

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  Disappointment, Years, Office

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• Expediency often silences justice.

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  Justice, Silence, Expediency

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• Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.

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  Countenance, Forged, Falsehood

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• It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.

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  Light, People, Might

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• It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.

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  Running, Heart, Greatness

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• There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

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  Generosity, Giving, Grace

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

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• We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it; for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine.

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  Giving, Receiving, Benefits

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• The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.

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  Gratitude, Law, Done

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• There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we must no more force a requital out of season than be wanting in it.

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  Gratitude, Greatness, Mind

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• Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.

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  Haste, Fetters, Heels

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• It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.

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  Together, Benefits, Letters

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• You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.

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  Modesty, Ashamed, Obligation

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• The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.

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  Long, Example, Path

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• Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

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  Bears, Magnanimity

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• A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

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  Reality, Sin, Mankind

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

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• The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.

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  Prayer, Mind, Body

  "Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius)". Book by Seneca the Younger (letter XIV), circa 65 AD.

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• A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

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  Independence, Steps, Treatment

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter CXXIII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1925.

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• No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.

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  Men, Order, Noble

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• Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.

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  Fall, Anger, Pieces

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• He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

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  Passion, Humanity, Generations

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• All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that is the best state of fortune that is neither directly necessitous nor far from it. A mediocrity of fortune, with gentleness of mind, will preserve us from fear or envy; which is a desirable condition; for no man wants power to do mischief.

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  Men, Envy, Mind

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• That comes too late that comes for the asking.

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  Too Late, Asking, Charity

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• To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.

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  Giving, Mind, Stills

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• Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.

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  Death, Home, Men

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