Seneca the Younger Quotes

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Seneca the Younger Quotes

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Seneca the Younger

Philosopher, Statesman

Philosophical

“There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.”

Life Motivational Wisdom

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Seneca the Younger

Philosopher, Statesman

Grateful

“True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.”

Laughing Brave True Joy

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Philosophical

“Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.”

Limits Position

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Philosophical

“Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.”

Men Giving

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Spiritual

“What else is nature but God?”

Inspiration Humor Insight

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Calm

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

Given Ease

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Melancholic

“Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.”

Moments Pleasure

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Courageous

“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.”

Men Evil Sight

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Philosophical

“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.”

Body Dwelling Host

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Spiritual

“This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.”

Life Home

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Spiritual

“A troubled countenance oft discloses much.”

Countenance

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Angry

“Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.”

Lying Laughing Return

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