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Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 8

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Speech is the mirror of the mind.

Speech is the mirror of the mind.

Seneca the Younger
Mirrors, Mind, Speech

Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.

Seneca the Younger
Memories, Past, Evil

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Motivational, Positive
'Epistulae ad Lucilium' letter 71, sect. 3

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca the Younger
Motivational, Positive, Cheer
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Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.

Seneca the Younger
Behaviour, Behavior, Levity

It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

Seneca the Younger
Praise, Admirer, Provoking

What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

Seneca the Younger
Law, Innocence, Be Good
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 395-96, De Ira, II. 27, 1922.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

Seneca the Younger
Good Night, Light, Trouble
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The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.

Seneca the Younger
Men, Thinking, Generations

Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.

Seneca the Younger
Life, Long, Mind

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Fall, Optimistic

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.

Seneca the Younger
Excess, Pleasure, Repetition

What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.

Seneca the Younger
Wise, Revenge, Blow

Everything may happen.

Seneca the Younger
Art, Philosophy, History

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

Seneca the Younger
Death, Long, Dying

Money has never yet made anyone rich.

Seneca the Younger
Money, Rich, Made

How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.

Seneca the Younger
Love, Teaching, Pupils

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Philosophical, Health
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I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.

Seneca the Younger
Fate, Men, Destiny

What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.

Seneca the Younger
Men, Humanity, Raises

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

Seneca the Younger
Player, Games, Chess Game

Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.

Seneca the Younger
Work, Tasks, Today

A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

Seneca the Younger
Adversity, Color, Events

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca the Younger
Time, Men, Long

There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.

Seneca the Younger
People, World, Appearance

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