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Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.

Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.

Seneca the Younger
Anger, Two, Betrayed

He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.

Seneca the Younger
Style, Riding, Boast

A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.

Seneca the Younger
Comfort, Crowds, Companionship
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 124-25, Consol. ad Marc.', 12, 5, 1922.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

Seneca the Younger
Reading, Beneficial, Delightful

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.

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Bears, Feels, Humans

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

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Honor, Action, Destination

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

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Moments, Appearance, Mortality

It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.

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Sometimes, Mental Illness, Madmen

A hated government does not long survive.

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Government, Long, Doe

It is well to be born either a king or a fool.

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Kings, Fool, Born

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly.

Seneca the Younger
Grief, Air, Offensive
"Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXIII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.

Seneca the Younger
Vessel, Steers

...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in order to have enough....You geometers can calculate the area of circles, can reduce any given shape to a square, can state the distances separating starts. Nothing's outside your scope when it comes to measurement. Well, if you're such an expert, measure a man's soul; tell me how large or how small that is. You can define a straight line; what use is that to you if you've no idea what straightness means in life?

Seneca the Younger
Distance, Teaching, Mean

Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.

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Loyalty, Money, Fidelity

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

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Philosophical, Excellence, Quality
"Moral Letters to Lucilius". Book by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, transl. Richard Mott Gummere, Letter XLV: On sophistical argumentation, line 1, 1920.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

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Philosophical, Mind, Speech
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

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Death, Suicidal, Punishment

Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

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Sadness, Tears, Flow

I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.

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Country, World, Born

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

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Life, Soul, Ignorant

Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.

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May, Wealth, Fortune

Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Wisdom, Nature

Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.

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Men, Numbers, Slavery

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

Seneca the Younger
Honesty, Character, Class

Successful villany is called virtue.

Seneca the Younger
Successful, Virtue

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