Quotes with seneca

Quotes 161 till 180 of 184.

• We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

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  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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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.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• What is true belongs to me!

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• What once were vices are manners now.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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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.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• Where the fear is, happiness is not.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• While we are postponing, life speeds by.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• proportioned
• overstepped
• instability
• opportunity
• postponing
• corrupted

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