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  • What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.

  • Time discovers truth.

    "On Anger". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 45 AD.
  • Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

  • Real improvement is of slow growth only.

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

  • No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.

  • There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

  • The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.

  • We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.

  • Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.

  • The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.

  • When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

  • A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.

    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 124-25, Consol. ad Marc.', 12, 5, 1922.
  • I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

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

  • While we teach, we learn.

  • Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.

  • The best cure for anger is delay.

  • So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.

  • The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!

  • A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

  • Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

  • No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

  • You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

  • No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 350-52, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, XLVIII, 1922.
  • We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

    "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter XCV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1925.
  • You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.

  • We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.

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    Seneca the Younger quotes about: Abstinence Acting Adversity Affairs Age Aging Alcohol Ambition Anger Animals Anxiety Appreciation Art Atheism Attitude Being Happy Belief Best Friends Birthdays Blame Blessings Books Bravery Brothers Business Caring Challenges Character Charity Choices Compensation Conflict Conscience Country Courage Crime Death Desire Destiny Difficulty Dignity Dreams Drinking Drunkenness Duty Dying Earth Economy Education Effort Enemies Energy Environment Envy Eternity Evil Excellence Exercise Expectations Eyes Failing Failure Fashion Fate Fear Fear Of Death Felicity Fidelity Flight Focus Forgiveness Freedom Friends Friendship Frugality Future Genius Giving Goals God Gold Goodness Grace Gratitude Greatness Greed Grief Guilt Habits Happiness Happy Hate Hatred Health Heart Heaven History Home Honor House Human Nature Humanity Hunger Ignorance Injury Innocence Insanity Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Joy Judgement Judging Judgment Justice Kindness Knowledge Labor Language Latin Laughter Leadership Learning Liberalism Liberty Life Life And Death Literature Live Life Loss Love Loyalty Luck Lying Madness Mankind Mask Memories Military Moderation Modesty Money Motivation Motivational Nature Neighbors Office Old Age Opportunity Overcoming Pain Passion Past Patience Patriotism Peace Peace Of Mind Perception Philanthropy Philosophy Plato Pleasure Politics Positive Poverty Power Praise Prayer Pride Prisons Procrastination Progress Property Prosperity Prudence Purpose Quality Reading Reality Repentance Retirement Revenge Running Sad Sadness Sailing School Science Security Shame Silence Simplicity Sin Sinners Slavery Slaves Solitude Sorrow Soul Spring Stoicism Struggle Study Success Suffering Talent Teachers Teaching Temperance Temptation Thanksgiving Time Time Management Today Travel True Friends Truth Understanding Universe Values Violence Virtue Vision War Wealth Wisdom Worry Writing Youth