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Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 33

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We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

Seneca the Younger
Wicked, Together, Crowds

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

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Long, Care, Long Life

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

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Courage, Adversity, Men

Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.

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Asking, Debt, Pay

The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.

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Men, Heaven, Noble

The most happy ought to wish for death.

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Death, Wish, Ought

The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

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Evil, Wickedness, Way
"Agamemnon". Book by Seneca the Younger (line CXV), 1st century AD.

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

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Superstitions, Worship, Worship God

The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.

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Time, Looks, Velocity

He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.

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Hands, Tyrants, Iron

An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.

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School, Men, Ridiculous

Crime requires further crime to conceal it.

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Crime

He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.

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Grieving, Sorrow, Causes

Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.

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Crime, Prudence

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

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Retirement, Amusement, Tombs

The more violent the storm the sooner it is over.

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Storm, Violent

It is pleasant at times to play the madman.

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Play, Madmen, Pleasant

Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

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Law, Way, Given
'Epistulae Morales' letter 70, sect. 14

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

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Men

That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.

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Fortune, Given

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.

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Fitness, Health, Numbers

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

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Office, Done, Charity

It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.

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Life, Live Life, Tedious
"Epistolæ Ad Lucilium", XXIII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

Seneca the Younger
Country, 4th Of July, Patriotic

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

Seneca the Younger
Luxury, People, Simplicity

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