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Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 45

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If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

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Travel, Different, Want

To rule yourself is the ultimate power

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Latin Proverb, Ultimate, Ultimate Power

Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

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Vegetarianism, Refrain, Bloodshed

Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts

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Fall, Inspiration, Arches

It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.

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Peace, Wish

Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.

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Despair, Stoicism

There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

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Wisdom, Courage, Fall

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

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Life, Death, Should

How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.

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Memories, Science, Discovery

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

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Philosophical, Luxury, Want
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

If you judge, investigate.

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Philosophical, Umpires, Judging
"Medea". Play by Seneca the Younger, CXCIV, 1st century.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

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Life, Wisdom, Color
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura

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Life, Men, Literature

Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.

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Dream, Sleep, Men

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

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Life, Men, Wind

Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.

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Nature

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

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Happiness, Attitude, Health
"Hippolyus", CCXLIX in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 356-357), 1922.

Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.

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Health, Sound, Body

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

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Leadership, Motivation, Impossible

Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.

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Life, Long, Use

To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

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Life, Blessing, Live Well

Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.

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Life, Haste, Each Day

If you wish to be loved, love.

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Love, Life, Latin

Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

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Travel, No Friends, Acquaintance
"Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter II)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

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