Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 7

• We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

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  God, Truth, Want

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

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• Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.

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  Motivational, Men, Thinking

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• It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

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  Money, Mind, Bears

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• The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.

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  Matter, Persons

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• A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.

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  Horse, Animal, Men

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• There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

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  Men, Trying, He Man

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• He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

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  Eye, Ravens, Sheep

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• You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

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  Philosophical, Storm, Pilots

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

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• Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.

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  Successful, Long, Example

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• When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.

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  Men, Fellow Man, Distress

  "Hercules Furens". 463, 1st century.

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• I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

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  Trust, Philosophical, Don't Trust

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

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• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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  Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

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• The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

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  Motivational, Positive, Cheer

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

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• Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

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  Death, Philosophical, Wish

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

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• He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.

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  Pardon

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• Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.

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  Courage, World, Opinion

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• If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  'Epistulae ad Lucilium' letter 71, sect. 3

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• What were once vices are the fashion of the day.

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  Fashion, Vices

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• Life is most delightful on the downward slope.

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  Aging, Life Is, Delightful

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• That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.

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  Loss, Negligence

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• To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

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  Mad, Argument, Strive

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• Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.

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  Mass, Sentiments

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• You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.

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  Overcoming

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• The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

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  Exercise, Self, Self Control

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• Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.

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  Philosophy, Fall, Arrows

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