Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 8

• To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

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  Art, Philosophical, Political

  "The Madness of Hercules". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 54 AD.

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• To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.

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  Tongue, Firsts, Silent

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• As long as you live, learn how to live.

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  Long

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• Speech is the mirror of the mind.

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  Mirrors, Mind, Speech

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• Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.

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  Obedience, Command

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• He who is penitent is almost innocent.

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  Innocent, Penitence

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• I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.

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  Fate, Men, Destiny

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• We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.

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  Air, Deep Breathing, Spirit

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• We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.

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  Educational, Taught

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

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• Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

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  Good Night, Light, Trouble

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

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• He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Helping Others

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• Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.

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  Life, Long, Mind

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• The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.

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  Men, Thinking, Generations

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• Money has never yet made anyone rich.

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  Money, Rich, Made

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• What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.

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  Wise, Revenge, Blow

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• Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

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  War, Eye, Men

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• How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.

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  Love, Teaching, Pupils

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• It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

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  Praise, Admirer, Provoking

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• Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.

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  Behaviour, Behavior, Levity

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• Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.

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  Excess, Pleasure, Repetition

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• It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.

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  Should, Fortune, Mankind

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• The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

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  Death, Long, Dying

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• The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

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  Inspirational, Fall, Optimistic

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• Everything may happen.

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  Art, Philosophy, History

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• What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.

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  Men, Humanity, Raises

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