Quotes of Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body. ”

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Health

“ If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command. ”

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Sit

“ A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. ”

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Gift

“ Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ”

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Motivational

“ Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear. ”

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Inspire

“ Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing. ”

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Hope

“ If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared. ”

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Fear

“ He is a king who fears nothing; he is a king who desires nothing! ”

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Fear

“ The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition. ”

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Acquisition

“ For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. ”

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Acquisition

“ For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. ”

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Acquiring

“ So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come. ”

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Amusement

“ He who gives when he is asked has waited too long. ”

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Auxiliary

“ He that does good to another does good also to himself. ”

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Aftermath

“ But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do! ”

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Assets

“ Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. ”

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Assistance

“ Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs. ”

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Back

“ For the great benefits of our being — our life, health, and reason — we look upon ourselves. ”

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Benefit

“ He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt. ”

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Benefit

“ 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. ”

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Blow

“ It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. ”

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Burdensome

“ Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others. ”

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Boast

“ He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another. ”

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Boast

“ Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. ”

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Ban

“ Modesty forbids what the law does not. ”

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Ban

“ A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. ”

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Benefactor

“ He who is brave is free. ”

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Bold

“ Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. ”

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Bold

“ What must be, shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing. ”

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Battle

“ 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. ”

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Quotes of Marcus Annaeus Seneca - somelinesforyou

“ The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body. ”

“ If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command. ”

“ A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. ”

“ Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ”

“ Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear. ”

“ Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing. ”

“ If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared. ”

“ He is a king who fears nothing; he is a king who desires nothing! ”

“ The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition. ”

“ For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. ”

“ For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. ”

“ So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come. ”

“ He who gives when he is asked has waited too long. ”

“ He that does good to another does good also to himself. ”

“ But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do! ”

“ Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. ”

“ Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs. ”

“ For the great benefits of our being — our life, health, and reason — we look upon ourselves. ”

“ He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt. ”

“ 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. ”

“ It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. ”

“ Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others. ”

“ He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another. ”

“ Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. ”

“ Modesty forbids what the law does not. ”

“ A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. ”

“ He who is brave is free. ”

“ Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. ”

“ What must be, shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing. ”

“ 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. ”