Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 44

• Dignity increases more easily than it begins.

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  Dignity, Increase

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

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• As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.

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  Gratitude, Men, May

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• The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.

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  Poverty, Wealth, Amount

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• So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.

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  Hours, Pleasure, Enjoy

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• Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.

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  Grief, Secret

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• Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

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  Rain, Wind, Sky

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

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• How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?

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  Action

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• Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.

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  Fighting, Battle, Retreat

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• Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.

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  Powerful, Spring, Rain

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• The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

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  Money, Lying, Political

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• Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.

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  Simplicity, Goodness, Squalor

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• Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.

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  Goal, Management, Planning

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXI)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

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• Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

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  Successful, Law, Names

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• To the stars through difficulties.

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  Stars, Difficulty, Live By

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• His head was turned by too great success.

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  Success, Great Success

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• The time will come when diligent research over periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden...Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memories of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has something for every age to investigate. nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.

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  Nature, Sorry, Memories

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• That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

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  Peace, Luxury, Greed

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• Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

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  Happiness, Powerful, Men

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• When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

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  Writing, Style, Mind

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• Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.

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  Insecure, Land, Tyrants

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• The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

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  Inspirational, Friendship, Giving

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXI)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

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• Fear drives the wretched to prayer

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  Prayer, Wretched

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• [During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.

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  Mistake, Way, Ruins

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• It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.

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  Men, Sweat, Togas

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• There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

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  Elements, Madness, Talent

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