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Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 26

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The world itself is too small for the covetous.

The world itself is too small for the covetous.

Seneca the Younger
World

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Happiness, People

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

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Doe, Crime, Invites

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.

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Inspirational, Life, Motivational
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Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.

Seneca the Younger
Revenge, Hatred, Chance

What once were vices are manners now.

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Vices, Manners

It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.

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Sweet, Grief, Solitude

The fortune of war is always doubtful.

Seneca the Younger
War, Fortune, Doubtful

Our words should aim not to please, but to help.

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Our Words, Helping, Should

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Spring, New Beginnings

He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.

Seneca the Younger
Deny, Doubtful

There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer.

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Evil, Vices, Doe

Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.

Seneca the Younger
Death, Justice, Expecting

Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.

Seneca the Younger
Men, Mind, Study

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

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Wish, Littles, Poverty

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

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Law, Doe, May
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He that does good to another does good also to himself.

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Teamwork, Kindness, Philosophical
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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

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Best Friend

Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.

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Nature, Secret, Doe

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

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Life, Spiritual, Home

The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.

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Real, Action, Compensation

All art is but imitation of nature.

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Art, Philosophical, Garden
"Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

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Inspirational, Soul, Climate

Mercy often inflicts death.

Seneca the Younger
Mercy
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 509-10, Troades, 329, 1922.

Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.

Seneca the Younger
Philosophy, Humanity, Unhappy

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