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What you think is the summit is only a step up

What you think is the summit is only a step up

Seneca the Younger
Thinking, Steps, Step Up

Necessity is stronger than duty.

Seneca the Younger
Stronger, Duty

The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

Seneca the Younger
Luxury, Simplicity, Effort

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

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Friendship, Best Friend, Encouraging
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

Seneca the Younger
Use, Littles, Ill

Be harsh with yourself at times.

Seneca the Younger
Reflection, Harsh

You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Spiritual, Wind

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.

Seneca the Younger
Motivational, Men, Thinking

Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet.

Seneca the Younger
Truth, Claims

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

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Writing, Men, Ideas

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

Seneca the Younger
Happy Life, Perfect, Virtue

He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.

Seneca the Younger
Native American, American Indian, All Alone

He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.

Seneca the Younger
Kindness, Ungrateful, Return
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 393-94, De Beneficiis, III. 1, 1922.

Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.

Seneca the Younger
Giving, Charity, Philanthropy
"Troades", 697 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 595-596), 1922.

Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.

Seneca the Younger
Economy, Source, Revenue

It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

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Mind, Atheism, Weak

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

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Success, Philosophical, Offensive
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

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Practice, Training, Firsts

If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.

Seneca the Younger
Judging, Desire, Sin

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Courage, Hero

The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.

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Uplifting, Mind, Degrees

One crime has to be concealed by another.

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Philosophical, Prison, Crime
"Phaedra". Tragedy by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, DCCXXI, c. 290 AD.

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Our Words, Action

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

Seneca the Younger
Happy Life, Hands, Weight

It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

Seneca the Younger
Dog, Men, Practice
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226-27, Of a Happy Life, Chapter XIX, 1922.

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