Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 43

• The miserable are sacred.

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  Sacred, Misery, Miserable

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• Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.

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  Utterance, Trouble, Silent

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• The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

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  Slave, Masters, Tyranny

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• All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.

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  Lying, Cradle, Graves

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• No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

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  Wise, Men, Virtue

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• Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.

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  Fall, Ignorance, Men

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• Light is that grief which counsel can allay.

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  Grief, Light

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• Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.

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  Wrath, Hatred, Chance

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• It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.

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  Hands, Justice, Humanity

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• It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

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  Business, Men, Thinking

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• Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.

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  Anxiety, Half, Trouble

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• Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.

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  Madness, Drunkenness

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• The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.

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  Memories, Fighting, Men

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• The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you.

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  May, Take Time, Expected

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• If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "True happiness is ... to enjoy the present" "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

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  Appreciation, Inspirational Life, Adversity

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• Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.

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  Grief, Light, Sorrow

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• No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.

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  Fall, Sorrow, Emotion

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• Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

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  Reign, Submit, Greater

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

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• The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.

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  Long, Patterns, Way

  Epistulae, 6.5 (translated by R M Gummere).

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• It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

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  Men, Sweat, Togas

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• Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)

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  Sides, Heard, Wells

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• We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.

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  Perfect, Liberty, Safe

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• Life is long if it is full.

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  Long, Age, Aging

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• All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.

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  Fire, Scary, World

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