Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 9

• A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

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  Adversity, Color, Events

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• Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

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  Inspirational, Philosophical, Health

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• If virtue precede us every step will be safe.

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  Safe, Steps, Virtue

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• There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

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  Time, Men, Long

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• We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.

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  Character, Long, Empowering

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• Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.

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  Work, Tasks, Today

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• You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

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  Life, Death, Kindness

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• What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

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  Law, Innocence, Be Good

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 395-96, De Ira, II. 27, 1922.

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• After death there is nothing.

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  After Death

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• While we teach, we learn.

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  Teaching, Learning, Teach

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• No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.

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  Share, Good Things, Pleasant

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• Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

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  Player, Games, Chess Game

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• There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.

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  People, World, Appearance

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• To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-

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  Oneself, Servitude

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• That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.

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  Delight, Disregarded

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• Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

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  Patience, Calm Mind, Comfort

  "On Tranquility of the Mind". Seneca the Younger's letter to Serenus as translated in William Bell Langsdorf "Tranquillity of Mind and Providence", 1900.

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• They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites.

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  Light, Originality, Satellites

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• Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger

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  Epileptics, Precaution, Regard

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• What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?

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  Views, Mind, Speech

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• No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

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  Men, Taste, Quitting

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• A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Everything hangs on one's thinking.

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  Attitude, Thinking

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• Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

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  Success, Congratulations, Thinking

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• It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

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  Time, Philosophical, Able

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• It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

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  Calumny Is, Insult, Insulted

  "De Ira". Book by Seneca the Younger, II. 32, 45 AD.

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