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Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 19

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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Seneca the Younger
Funny, Inspiring, Sarcastic

Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.

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Philosophy, Blow, Belief

Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.

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Overcoming, Fidelity
"Agamemnon". Book by Seneca the Younger, 287,

The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

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Adversity, Men, Two

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

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Intelligence, Mediocrity, Helping

Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.

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Eye, Tears, Dry

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

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Dream, People, Vices

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

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

Nobody becomes guilty by fate.

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Fate, Guilt, Guilty

The language of truth is unvarnished enough.

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Language, Truth Is, Enough

Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.

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Freedom, Liberty, Littles

Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

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Anger, Giving, Judgement

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

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Life, Death, Wise
"Moral Essays: Ad Marciam De Consolatione". Translated by J. W. Basore,

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.

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Practice, Advice, Training

Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.

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Servitude

An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.

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Mind, Action, Disposition

On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.

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Lying, Doe, Well Known
'Thyestes' sc. 2, chorus (translation by Miller)

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

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Retirement, Letters, Retiring
"A Little Book of Aphorisms". Book by Frederick B Wilcox, p. 173, 1947.

Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.

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Real, Please Me, Matter

The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

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Fate, Drag, Willing
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 261-65, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, CVII, 1922.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

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Money, Men, Littles

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

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Advice, Body, Disease
Epistulae ad Lucilium

You should rather suppose that those are involved in worthwhile duties who wish to have daily as their closest friends Zeno, Pythagoras, Democritus and all the other high priests of liberal studies, and Aristotle and Theophrastus. None of these will be too busy to see you, none of these will not send his visitor away happier and more devoted to himself, none of these will allow anyone to depart empty-handed. They are at home to all mortals by night and by day.

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Home, Night, Wish

We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.

Seneca the Younger
Wells

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

Seneca the Younger
Fear

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