| 120 Famous Quotes by Seneca
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“The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.”
Glutton Quotes |
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“There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.”
Gratitude Quotes |
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“Every guilty person is his own hangman.”
Guilt Quotes |
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“Whom they have injured, they also hate.”
Hate Quotes |
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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? -Seneca.”
Heart-quotes Quotes |
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“No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.”
Loss Quotes |
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“Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.”
Loyalty Quotes |
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“What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.. Epictetus, c 200 AD -Seneca.”
Materialism Quotes |
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“It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.”
Mob Quotes |
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“Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.”
Money Quotes |
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“If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.”
Perspective Quotes |
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“Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?”
Philosophy Quotes |
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“All cruelty springs from weakness.”
Psychological subjects Quotes |
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“The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.”
Psychological subjects Quotes |
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“Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.”
Self-knowledge Quotes |
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“If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.”
Sensuality Quotes |
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“A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. Kim, Age 11 -Seneca.”
Stress Quotes |
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“Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.”
Vice Quotes |
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“The sun also shines on the wicked.”
Wickedness Quotes |
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“No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.”
Will Quotes |
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Seneca Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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