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Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 34

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True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

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Strong, Praise, Thrive
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Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

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Grief, Light, Dumb

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

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Inspiration, Healing, Health
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No man was ever wise by chance.

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Inspirational, Life, Wise
"Epistolæ Ad Lucilium" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82., 1922.

To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.

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Wind, Vision, Doe

What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.

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Real, Heart, Blessing

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

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Men, Hands, Bird

Where fear is, happiness is not.

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Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness
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We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust it; the other will make our strength flabby and watery. It is better to have recourse to them alternately, and to blend one with the other, so that the fruits of one's reading may be reduced to concrete form by the pen.

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Reading, Writing, Advice

This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans: We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding, whereas they believe that clouds collide in order to create lightning. Since they attribute everything to gods, they are led to believe not that events have a meaning because they have happened, but that they happen in order to express a meaning.

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Believe, Clouds, Order

Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.

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Sick, Disease, Facts

Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.

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Brother, Mind, Wicked

Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.

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Firsts, Remedy, Extremes

He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.

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May, Thanks, Wells

Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.

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Light, Dumb, Care

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

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Life, Fate, Years

For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

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Reason, Divine, Whole

Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.

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Speak, Guides, Admire

If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.

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Wise, Doubt, Without Hope

What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.

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Men, Differences, Essentials

It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.

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Men, Frustrated, Wish

When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.

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See what daily exercise does for one.

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Exercise, Energy, Doe

I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.

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Travel, Land, World

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

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Inspirational, Men, Giving
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