Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca - Page 4

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Dare
Difficult
Venture
Difficult Things Because
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The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Bows
Earth
Faces
Good Fortune
Heaven
Turns
Good Bad Heaven
Heads
Heads Down
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Aim
Plans
Wind
Because
Does
He
Harbor
Making
Right
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Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Friends
Travel
Ends
No Friends
Everywhere
Person
Acquaintances
Nowhere
Foreign
Having
His
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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Happy Life
Maxims
Produce
Weight
Useful
Few
Hand
Precepts
Volumes
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God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
All Things
Fountain
Substance
Universal
Existing
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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Fingers
Grace
Hesitation
Should
Sticks
Benefit
Cheerfully
Without
Give
Quickly
Receive
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It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Thankful
Ungrateful
Great Man Will
Fault
Mine
Oblige
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Mortals
Unkindness
Meanest
None
Service
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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Console
Grief
Offensive
Becomes
Chronic
Finds
Quickly
Ridiculed
Rightly
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No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Happy
Truth
Lied
Lying
Pale
Thrust
Two
Be Happy
Being Lied To
Outside
Realm
Ways
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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Respect
All Things
Judgment
Might
Self Love
Respect Yourself Your
Where Yourself Your
Useful
Friend
Consult
Counsel
Impair
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In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Arms
Bereft
Dependence
Divine
Guidance
Perspective
Reason
Becomes
Commander
Deserves
Fails
Longer
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It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Force
Superfluous
Sweat
Camp
Dash
Wear
Shores
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Cringe
Defiance
Evil
Ought
Suffering
Surrender
Shall
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Creative
Effort
Appears
Dead
Organic
Product
Therefore
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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.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Attention
Brave
Brave Man
Conflict
Direct
Equal
Evil
Fortune
Matched
Sight
Worthy
God Work Man
Behold
Turning
Gaze
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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.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Wisdom
Appetite
Color
Firmness
Mastery
Actions
Precept
Teaches
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Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Earth
Eternity
Fire
Light
Matter
Rain
Sky
Sun
Thunder
Wind
Beyond
Burns
Gives
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Wise
Existence
Ignorant
Ignorant People
Middle
Non Existence
Observation
Life Men People
Beyond
Both
Either
Transcends
Wise Men
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Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Clear
Remarkable
Strive
Talent
Toil
Branch
Devote
Entirely
Notions
Shun
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Wisdom
Forever
Needs
Powerful
Be Happy
Master
Himself
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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.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Flight
Moral
Moral Character
Scene
Achieved
Becomes
Internal
Unsettled
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Every Night
Night
Should
Temptation
Today
Vices
Virtue
Account
Acquired
Brought
Call
Night Day Every Day
Every Day
Mastered
Opposed
Passions
Resisted
Themselves
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I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Neighbor
Secret
Life God World
Govern
Hearts
Searcher
Thoughts
Signify
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We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Thankful
Health
Acres
Benefits
Earth
Little Money
Obligation
Reason
Be Thankful
Friend
Few
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A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Wise
Medical
Angry
Extravagant
Fever
Ill
Mad
Mankind
Patient
Sick
Wise Man Wise Man
Does
Nor
Physician
Treat
Wise Man
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