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Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and

Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.

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Men, Suffering, Ease

This life is only a prelude to eternity.

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Life, Eternity, Prelude

Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.

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Men, Should Have, Years

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

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Philosophical, Danger, Exposure
"De Providentia", IV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 158-160), 1922.

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.

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Pain, New Experiences, Evil

You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.

Seneca the Younger
Long, Should, Knows

There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.

Seneca the Younger
Hero, Self, Denial

Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.

Seneca the Younger
Law, Written, Unwritten

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.

Seneca the Younger
Adversity, Prosperity, Fidelity
"Agamemnon". Book by Seneca the Younger, 934,

He who is everywhere is nowhere.

Seneca the Younger
"Moral Letters to Lucilius, II". Book by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 65 AD.

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.

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Greatness, Men, Resolution

When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.

Seneca the Younger
Ambition, Progress, Limits

What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.

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Men, Ungrateful, Thrown

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

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Needs, Poverty, Avarice

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

Seneca the Younger
God, Greatness, Men

Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens; he has left this low-lying region and has soared upwards to that place which receives in its happy bosom the souls set free from the chains of matter. Your brother has not lost the light of day, but has obtained a more enduring light. He has not left us, but has gone on before.

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Brother, Lying, Light

Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not be doubted that his part contributes to the generation, and adds much to that which has been collected.

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Mind, Add, Generations

No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.

Seneca the Younger
Merit, Mere

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

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Death, Alive, Literature

The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.

Seneca the Younger
Men, Heaven, Good Man

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

Seneca the Younger
Doe, Ill, Wells

To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

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Inspirational, People, Simplicity

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

Seneca the Younger
Men, Doe, Demand

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

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Giving, Judgement, Blame

It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.

Seneca the Younger
Character, Personality, Desire

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