Seneca the Younger Quotes

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Seneca the Younger Quotes

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Seneca the Younger

Philosopher, Statesman

Anxious

“Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.”

Men Suffering Ease

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Seneca the Younger

Philosopher, Statesman

Philosophical

“You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.”

Ideas Winning Numbers

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Angry

“Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.”

Overcoming Fidelity

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Wise

“No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.”

Merit Mere

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Wise

“Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.”

Practice Advice Training

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Motivated

“The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.”

Effort Simplicity Luxury

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Courageous

“The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.”

Fate Willing

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Grateful

“A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.”

Mind Benefits

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Courageous

“In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases.”

Giving Adversity Teeth

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Wise

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

Nature Easy Sweat

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Wise

“Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.”

Hate Despise

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Anxious

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

Fall House

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