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Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 23

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The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.

The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.

Seneca the Younger
Fall, House, Tempest

What is true belongs to me!

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Truth, Philosophical
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Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

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Opportunity, Virtue, Calamity
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 518-19, De Providentia, IV, 1922.

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

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Men, Insanity, Driven

Full of men, vacant of friends.

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Men, Vacant

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

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Fall, Philosophical, Ruins
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To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

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Bears, Habit, Impatience

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

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Too Late, Purses, Economics

No evil is without its compensation.

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Evil, Compensation

Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

Seneca the Younger
Freedom, Integrity, Responsibility

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

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Inspirational, Slavery, Human Trafficking
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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

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Inspirational, Life, Happiness
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These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.

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Motivational, Money, Fever

The Germans, a race eager for war.

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Peace, War, Race

How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!

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Numbers, Would Be, Slavery

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

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Peace, Home, Character
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.

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Men, Wife, Infidelity

Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.

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Ease, Given, Weary

Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.

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Philosophy, Overcoming, May

A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.

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Love Is

Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

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Sheep, Tree, Lightning

Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?

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Beauty, Rely Upon, Fleeting

Speech is the index of the mind.

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Mind, Speech

In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

Seneca the Younger
Nature, Long, Ashes
"Quæstionum Naturalium". Book by Seneca the Younger, Book III. 27,

If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

Seneca the Younger
Philosophical, Loss, Animal

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