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No possession is gratifying without a companion.

No possession is gratifying without a companion.

Seneca the Younger
Companionship, Companion, Possession
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 124-25, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, VI, 1922.

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.

Seneca the Younger
Gratitude, Men, He Man

We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.

Seneca the Younger
Dirty, Men, People

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

Seneca the Younger
Family, Deeds, Ancestry
"The Madness of Hercules". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 54 AD.

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

Seneca the Younger
Hate, Hateful, Despise

The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Time, Past

He worships God who knows him.

Seneca the Younger
Worship, Worship God, Knows

All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.

Seneca the Younger
Hands, Pits, Let Down

Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.

Seneca the Younger
Men, Want, Return

The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.

Seneca the Younger
Dwelling, Body, Host
Epistulae ad Lucilium CXX

Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.

Seneca the Younger
Death

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

Seneca the Younger
Nature, Sweat, Easy
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The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

Seneca the Younger
Philosophy, Philosophical, Men
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.

Seneca the Younger
Faults, Youth

True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.

Seneca the Younger
Friends, True Friend, Delight

God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.

Seneca the Younger
Race, Given, Humans
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 311-13, De Beneficiis, IV. 28, 1922.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

Seneca the Younger
Height, Fortune, Casts
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It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.

Seneca the Younger
Faith, Men, Thinking

He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.

Seneca the Younger
Foresight

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Seneca the Younger
Philosophical, Doe, Noble
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

Seneca the Younger
Men, Honor, Assuming

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Seneca the Younger
Money, Loss, Evil

What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?

Seneca the Younger
Men, Insanity, Insane
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 396-97, De Ira, II. 26, 1922.

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

Seneca the Younger
Laughter, Causes, Weeping

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

Seneca the Younger
Men, Sight, Evil
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