Seneca Quotes Flashcards

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Letters 9.6 quote (Be loved)

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“If you would be loved, love.”

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Letters 9.10 quote (For what purpose)

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“For what purpose … do I make a man my friend? … to have someone for whom I may die..”

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Letters 9.11 quote (Friendship run mad)

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”..the feeling of a lover has in it something akin to friendship … friendship run mad.”

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Letters 35.1 quote (Love does harm)

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“Friendship … is always helpful, but love sometimes even does harm.”

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Letters 48.2 quote (Live for your neighbour)

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”..you must live for your neighbour, if you would live for yourself.”

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Letters 59.18 quote (Pleasure-lovers)

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“Pleasure-lovers spend every night amid false-glittering joys, … as if it were their last.”

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Letters 74.14 quote (Lust pertains not)

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”.. lust pertains not to God..”

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Letters 83.20 quote (Drunkenness)

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“Drunkenness does not create vice, it merely brings it into view..”

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Letters 85.6 quote (Any passions whatsoever)

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“If … the wise man has any passions whatsoever, his reason will be no match for them..”

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Letters 85.9 quote (If reason prevails)

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”..if reason prevails, the passions will not even get a start..”

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Letters 94.26 quote (A man does wrong)

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”..a man does wrong in requiring chastity of his wife while he himself is … with the wives of other men..”

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Letters 95.20 quote (Women rivalling male indulgences)

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..women never lost their hair or suffered from pain in the feet; and yet nowadays they run short of hair and are afflicted with gout … in rivalling male indulgences they have also rivalled [their] ills..”

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Letters 95.21 quote (Women matching men’s passions)

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”..they even match the men in their passions, although they were created to feel love passively … they play the part of men.”

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Letters 104.5 quote (Valued by one’s wife)

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”..what is sweeter than to be so valued by one’s wife that one becomes more valuable to oneself..”

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Letters 122.5 quote (Against Nature)

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“All vices rebel against Nature..”

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On Benefits 3.28 quote (Your immediate ancestors)

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“Whether your immediate ancestors were freedmen, or slaves, or foreigners … a noble origin awaits you.”

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On Benefits 3.28 quote (Slave of lust)

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“You, the slave of lust, of gluttony, of a harlot … can you call anyone else a slave?”

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On the Firmness of the Wise Man 1 quote (Stoics and other philosophers, men and women)

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”..there is as wide a difference between the Stoics and the other sects of philosophers as there is between men and women … the one is born to command, the other to obey.”

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On the Happy Life 2 quote (All savageness)

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”..when we have driven away all those things … which are connected with the basest crimes, we thus gain an immense, unchangeable, equable joy … for all savageness is a sign of weakness.”

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Letters 122.7 quote (Crossdressing)

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”..men live contrary to Nature who exchange the fashion of their attire with women..”