Philosophy Quotes by Seneca the Younger

20 Philosophy quotes by Seneca the Younger

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Seneca’s timeless counsel offers practical guidance for navigating hardship, distilled into concise, powerful statements. This set of 20 quotes serves as a steady hand in turbulent times.

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Man is a social animal.

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Everything may happen.

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People do not die - they kill themselves.

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Philosophy is the health of the mind.

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Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.

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Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

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Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.

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Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

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Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.

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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.

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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

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Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen,…

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Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short…

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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how…

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There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

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Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you…

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In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of…

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When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that…

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Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips…

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My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in…

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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

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Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

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To rule yourself is the ultimate power

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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

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Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

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He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life…

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Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do…

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After death there is nothing.

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Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.

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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

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