Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 6

• Nothing is ours except time.

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  Time, Acceptance, Time Management

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• Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.

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  States, Dues, Security

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• The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

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  Deeds And Words, Proof, Should

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• The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

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  Money, Adversity, Challenges

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

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• But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.

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  True Friend, Mistake, Trust Yourself

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• There is no genius without a mixture of madness.

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  Genius, Mixtures, Madness

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• If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.

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  Evil, Companion, Propensity

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

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• Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

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  Opportunity, Preparation, Luck

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• We learn not in the school, but in life.

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  Life, Learning, School

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• Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

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  Drinking, Alcohol, Liquor Funny

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

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• The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.

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  Consistency, Deeds

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• As was his language so was his life.

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  Thought Provoking, Silence, Language

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• The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.

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  Goodness

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• Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

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  Adversity, Tests, Merit

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• He who is brave is free.

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  Freedom, Reality, Bravery

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• The sun shines even on the wicked.

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  Evil, Shining, Wicked

  "De Beneficiis", III. 25, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 235-36, 1922.

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• You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

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  Philosophical, Wish, Live For Yourself

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• The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

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  Lust, Miserable, Shame

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• It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

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  Money, Passion, Worry

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• The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

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  Birthday, Tattoo, Death

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

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• There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.

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  Gratitude, Time, Men

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• We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.

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  True Joy, Foundation, Vex

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• Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

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  Inspirational, Success, Courage

  "De Providentia" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 9-10., 1922.

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• The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

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  Wise, Men, Quality

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• The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

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  Life, Giving, Hours

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