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Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 38

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Apples taste sweetest when they're going.

Apples taste sweetest when they're going.

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Apples, Taste, Decline

It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.

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"Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium". Book by Seneca the Younger,

A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.

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Enjoyment, Pursued
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 225-26, Epistles, XXIII. 3. 4, 1922.

No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.

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Practice, Choices, Window Dressing

The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.

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Progress, Desire, Greater

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

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Ancestry, Descent, Brag
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Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.

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Eye, Men, Long

Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

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Drinking, Alcohol, Insanity
Epistulae ad Lucilium LXXXIII

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

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Courage, Powerful, Adversity
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The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.

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Long, Way, Unfortunate

A thousand approaches lie open to death.

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Lying, Thousand, Approach

There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

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Helping Others, Delight, Helping

He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.

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Plato, Mean, Son

Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.

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Plato, Nephew, Slave

That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.

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Fear, Eternity, Ends

Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . .

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Brother, Spirit, Made

He who begs timidly courts a refusal.

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Refusal, Court, Beggar
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 64-65, Hippolytus, II. 593, 1922.

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

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Failing, Reason, Cures

We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.

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Life, Men, Different

Life without literary studies is death.

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Literature, Study

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.

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Heaven, Earth, Ascent
"Hercules Furens (The Mad Hercules)". Book by Seneca the Younger (line CCCCXXXVII), 1st century AD.

Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law

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Retirement, Law, People

You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.

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Success, Wisdom, Learning

If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a veil of pleached and intertwining branches, then the loftiness of the forest, the seclusion of the spot and your marvel at the thick unbroken shade in the midst of the open spaces, will prove to you the presence of deity.

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Space, Views, Sky

Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!

Seneca the Younger
Girl, Art, Pain

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