How To Use Seneca In A Sentence
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Since 1993, I've gone through a great deal of philosophy, in particular works by the Roman stoics such as Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Cicero.
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No wonder, as Mr. Hamilton drily notes, that on the wall of the Leipzig Gewandhaus (where Mendelssohn played and conducted) was Seneca's apothegm: "Res severa est verum gaudium.
What Music Has Lost
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Their baggage mules transported not only the precious vases, but even the fragile vessels of crystal and murra, which last is almost proved, by the learned French translator of Seneca, (tom.iii. p. 402-422,) to mean the porcelain of China and
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. Seneca
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In the first of these letters Seneca hopes his brother Paul is well: “Bene te valere, frater, cupio.”
A Philosophical Dictionary
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It's like being at the Seneca Niagara Casino and hearing the coins clatter into the tray of a slot machine.
The Buffalo News: Home
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters. Seneca
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A rapid succession, which may yet be credible, as well as the non consulum numero, sed maritorum annos suos computant, of Seneca,
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Even a demitasse of chicory coffee must have been hard to come by in Seneca, South Carolina in the last world war.
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: Selling Mother's Louis Vuittons on eBay
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. Seneca
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I would ask you, Messer Cicero and Messer Seneca, whose dog-eared volumes I see scattered upon the floor, of what use is it for me to know better than any master of the Mint or a Jew of the Pont-aux-Change that a gold crown piece is worth thirty-five unzain at twenty-five sous eight deniers parisis each, if I have not a single miserable black liard to risk upon the double-six?
IV. Fate. Book VII
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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. Seneca
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In the decemviral code the extreme penalty is attached to the crime of witchcraft or conjuration: 'Let him be capitally punished who shall have bewitched the fruits of the earth, or by either kind of conjuration (_excantando neque incantando_) shall have conjured away his neighbour's corn into his own field,' &c., an enactment sneered at in Justinian's _Institutes_ in Seneca's words.
The Superstitions of Witchcraft
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Critics borrowed the apian metaphor from Seneca's eighty-fourth letter to Lucilius, ‘On Gathering Ideas.’
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If we stop short of denying to Seneca the possession of any dramatic talent, it is at any rate hard to resist the conviction that he treated the plays as a _parergon_, spending little thought or care on their _ensemble_, though at times working up a scene or scenes with an elaboration and skill as unmistakable as it is often misdirected.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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_On the contrary, _ Seneca says (De Clementia ii, 4) that "the opposite of clemency is cruelty, which is nothing else but hardness of heart in exacting punishment.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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This book focuses on the story of a Seneca man named White Thunder and the mysterious, delicae, pale, slim, but amply bosomed white woman he finds unconscious on a large rock.
Sharing my pain.
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But within the past eight or nine months, yaba has flowed from the Seneca Social Club to every street corner.
Hardcase
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. Seneca
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Wherefore Seneca says (De Clementia ii, 4) that "those are called cruel who have reason for punishing, but lack moderation in punishing.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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James Harris, President of Seneca Financial Group in New York, said a 'prepack' deal combined with a small amount of financial aid from the government - rather than $25 billion - is the most logical path.
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Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men. Seneca
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From the writings of Seneca, we know that the Romans spent large sums of money building their baths.
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Olim meminisse juvabit", * (* It will be pleasant to remember former troubles - Virgil (not Seneca).) and dooced appropriate, too.
THE NUMBERS
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As Greenblatt observes, ‘Purgatory, along with theological language of communion, deathbed confession, and anointing (aneling), while compatible with a Christian (and, specifically, a Catholic) call for remembrance, is utterly incompatible with a Senecan call for vengeance’.
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Paul does not write quite so good Latin as Seneca: “I received your letters yesterday,” says he, “with joy.” — “Litteras tuas hilaris accepi.” — “And I would have answered them immediately had I had the presence of the young man whom I would have sent with them.” — “Si præsentiam juvenis habuissem.”
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Cujusque ferae pabulum, saith [1748] Seneca, impatient of heat and cold, impatient of labour, impatient of idleness, exposed to fortune's contumelies.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. Seneca
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An analysis for automatic classification of field crops-field corn and wheat, using the Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) scenes on July and August , 98, in Seneca County, New York state is presented.
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. Seneca
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Thebans Amphiaraus, and the Lebadians Trophonius; one religion is as true as another, new fangled devices, all for human respects; great-witted Aristotle's works are as much authentical to them as Scriptures, subtle Seneca's Epistles as canonical as St. Paul's, Pindarus 'Odes as good as the Prophet
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The matter is theirs most part, and yet mine, apparet unde sumptum sit (which Seneca approves), aliud tamen quam unde sumptum sit apparet, which nature doth with the aliment of our bodies incorporate, digest, assimilate, I do concoquere quod hausi, dispose of what I take.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Obj. 3: Further, Seneca says (De Clementia ii, 4): "A man may be said to be of unsound mind when he takes pleasure in cruelty.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Aliquando nervi, aliquando pedes vexant, (Seneca) nunc distillatio, nunc epatis morbus; nunc deest, nunc superest sanguis: now the head aches, then the feet, now the lungs, then the liver, &c.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The city's East Side, where Eastern European immigrants conceived grandiose works of ecclesiastic architecture before moving to neighboring suburbs like West Seneca and Cheektowaga, is inhabited largely by African Americans.
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And we swear to you, (under correction from the parish vestry, which is entitled to half-a-crown an oath,) that the circulating libraries would make a driveler of Seneca!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844
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Lastly is Seneca and, because Seneca was translated from Latin to English as opposed to from Greek to English and also because he was a very accomplished writer and a playwright, I find his readings to be more memorable and accruable.
Boing Boing
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Seneca the Younger: You're correct that in Latin 'sic' means 'thus'; however, in editing, 'sic' means 'it was wrong in the original and I'm anal enough to point that out to you in case you missed that horrendous grammatical/spelling error.'
Congressman Peter Hoekstra tweets a security breach!
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. Seneca
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The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. Seneca
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Medea was popular enough to be repeatedly restaged in the next century, and was re-created in Latin by Seneca for the brutal world of the early Roman Empire.
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Petronius is a 'classicist'; the friend of Nero, he protests against the flamboyance of the age as typified in the rhetorical style of Seneca and
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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[6344] Seneca, a frantic error; or as Austin, Insanus animi morbus, a furious disease of the soul; insania omnium insanissima, a quintessence of madness; [6345] for he that is superstitious can never be quiet.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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'Seneca, qui fuit avonculus eius, quia ex abrupto incohabat, hos vii. versus addidit: "Bella per Emathios" usque "et pila minantia pilis."'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
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He was a famous raconteur: the younger Seneca calls Pedo _fabulator elegantissimus_ at _Ep_ CXXII 15-16 when repeating one of his anecdotes.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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Wherever there is a human being, there is a chance for a kindness. Seneca
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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. Seneca
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Did Seneca author the original Passion narrative?
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There is reason to believe these wells were the objects of adoration before the country was christianised, and that such adoration was a survival of the earlier practice to which Seneca and
The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
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Since, then, clemency "is leniency of a superior in inflicting punishment on an inferior," as Seneca states (De Clementia ii, 3), and vengeance is taken by means of punishment, it would seem that clemency and meekness are the same.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. Seneca
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And, we ask, was it by the survival of the fittest that Julius Ceasar, [tr. note: sic] one of the grandest rulers of all ages, should succumb under the daggers of Brutus and Cassius: that Paul and Seneca should die by authority of their inferior, Nero; that Popery, rotten to the core and represented by men who would have brought on the ignominous [tr. note: sic] collapse or extinction of every other dynasty in the days of the Roman pornocracy, should survive, while the illustrious house of Henry I. sank away to ruin in the third and fourth generation; that John Hus should die at the stake and Jean Charlier de Gerson in timid monastic retirement, while
Evolution An Investigation and a Critique
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It is a common practice of the Senecas to call the gentes of their own phratry brother gentes and those of the other phratry their cousin gentes, when they mention them in their relation to the phratries.
Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines
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For Seneca says (De Clementia ii, 4) that "those are said to be cruel who exceed in punishing," which is contrary to justice.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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The five act structure, the appearance of some kind of ghost, the one line exchanges known as stichomythia, and Seneca's use of long rhetorical speeches were all later used in tragedies by Elizabethan playwrights.
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In fact, in most soils, there are counteracting influences which neutralize, more or less effectually, the desiccative action of roots, and in general it is as true as it was in Seneca's time, that "the shadiest grounds are the moistest [63].
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical)
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The office of the Queen Ge-keah-sau-sa, of fort Gau-strau-yea, for several hundred years (it is said by the Senecas about six hundred years ago she evacuated the fort), the Iroquois did not reordain, for the reason, as it is alleged by them, that the female is the weaker sex of humanity.
Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians
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The intrepid Joncaire, agent of France among the Senecas, was scandalized at what he calls the Jesuit's flight, and wrote to the commandant of Fort Frontenac that its effect on the Indians was such that he, Joncaire, was in peril of his life. [
A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America
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It is to England what Seneca's prose was to Rome: abundat dulcibus vitiis.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. Seneca
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Wherefore Seneca says (De Clementia ii, 3) that "clemency is a certain smoothness of the soul"; for, on the other hand, there would seem to be a certain roughness of soul in one who fears not to pain others.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. Seneca
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Seneca and Burrus smoothed over the public outcry.
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The character of Seneca thus finds just the right mixture of true compassion and the ranting of an alcoholic and sententious philosopher, whose servile disciples note down everything he says with ridiculous fury.
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. Seneca
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. Seneca
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Their baggage mules transported not only the precious vases, but even the fragile vessels of crystal and murra, which last is almost proved, by the learned French translator of Seneca, (tom.iii. p. 402 — 422,) to mean the porcelain of China and Japan.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. Seneca
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Seneca ridiculed a wealthy man because he kept a handsome slave who was dressed like a woman when he waited at table.
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He is most powerful who has power over himself. Seneca
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Montague has learned from Beckett; in both there is the iron resignation and sadness of a Roman patrician, a Cicero, or, better perhaps, a Seneca.
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He was dead before the conspiracy of Piso: Bracciolini could have seen that had he read carefully the letters of Seneca himself; for the philosopher and statesman speaks of Natalis at the time when he wrote the letter numbered in his works 87, as being dead some time, and "having many heirs" as he had been "the heir of many": -- "Nuper Natalis ... et multorum haeres fuit, et multos habuit haeredes" (Ep. LXXXVII.)
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century
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I do have friends who are American Indians representing many tribes - - Anishinabe, Seneca, Cherokee, Cayuga, Diné, Menominee, Ojibwe, Apache, Onondaga, Pima, Pequot.
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_On the contrary, _ Seneca says (De Clementia ii, 5): "Every good man is conspicuous for his clemency and meekness.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. Seneca
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A Seneca sachem of the highest class, he was born at the Indian village of Ga-no-wau-ges, near Avon, about the year 1735, and died at Onondaga in 1815, where he happened to be on one of his pastoral visits.
Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians
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Nero Senecam familiarem praeceptoremque suum ad eligendae mortis coegit arbitrium.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
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When Agrippina decided to show sympathy for Claudius' natural son Britannicus in 55, she sealed his doom, though the poisoning was not overt and could be dissembled, as by Seneca, who wrote praising Nero's clemency in the next year.
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All that day I spent in acquainting myself with the camp which had been pitched, as I say, on the neck of land bounded by the Susquehanna and the Chemung, with a small creek, called Cayuga by some, Seneca Creek by others, intersecting it and flowing south into the Susquehanna.
The Hidden Children
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Excepting Gorboducke {155}, (againe I say of those that I have seen) which notwithstanding as it is full of stately speeches, and wel sounding phrases, clyming to the height of Seneca his style, and as full of notable morallitie, which it dooth most delightfully teach, and so obtaine the verie ende of Poesie.
Defence of Poesie
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. Seneca
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Despite the fact that Senecas are twins, they try not to act like it.
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A study lends its owner, its privileged reader, what Seneca called euthymia, a Greek word which Seneca explained means "well-being of soul," and which he translated as "tranquillitas.
A Striped Armchair
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. Seneca
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Cordova had the honour of giving birth to Seneca and Lucan; and when Abdoul - raman, after fubduing the fouch of Spain, had eftabliftied here the feat of his domi - nion, (A.
A journey through Spain in the years 1786 and 1787;
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Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune. Seneca
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. Seneca
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Note 78: Citing Seneca's treatise on On the Tranquillity of Mind (I.V. #236), Virginia Tenzer notes that the inclusion of these figures on the east wall strengthens the narrative of the vita activa/vita contemplativa.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. Seneca
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Nero could not have imagined that Seneca might show up on the outskirts of town arguing that his matricidal past would come back to haunt his new post-fire reconstruction agenda.
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Franklin, who canceled several performances last year because of illness, has set her first concert since surgery on May 28 at the Seneca Niagara Casino in Buffalo, N.Y., and is set to release her long-awaited album, "Aretha: A Woman Falling Out of Love," the first week of May.
Recovering Aretha Franklin Gives Up Pigs' Feet For Diet
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If unalleviated, existential boredom can lead to a state of complete indifference or even revulsion toward the world, such as that described by the Roman statesman and philosopher Seneca: How long will things be the same?
Accidie? Ennui? Sigh . . .
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Seneca produced his own versions of tragedies by Sophocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus.
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No doubt he hopes the Clameron alliance will, as a result, choose to illuminate their utterances with quotations from Seneca rather than Ian Dowie (as Lord Mandelson did recently when talking of Gordon Brown's "bouncebackability").
Beautiful game is not a political football
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Seneca carries out the correspondence to the point of correlating the perio - dicities of the body — quartain fever, gout, menstrua - tion, the time of gestation — with the overflowing of springs and their dessication.
MACROCOSM AND MICROCOSM
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant. Seneca
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The dark red Seneca changed profile as the undercarriage cycled down.
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An analysis for automatic classification of field crops-field corn and wheat, using the Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) scenes on July and August , 98, in Seneca County, New York state is presented.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant. Seneca
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A city of west - central New York at the northern end of Seneca Lake west - southwest of Syracuse.
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Representing the Finger Lakes in this fast-paced battle of four chefs is Debra Whiting, executive chef and co-owner of Red Newt Cellars Winery and Bistro on Seneca Lake.
Melissa Dobson
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Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune. Seneca
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_Il Torre di Seneca_, as it is called, stands on an escarped pinnacle of rock, terminating one of the loftiest of the detached sugar-loaf hills.
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.
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One man demonstrates the use of the rattle by loudly singing a Seneca song in the theater after the show, while hammering the rattle against his palm.
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Plato said that philosophy is a meditation on and a preparation for death; Seneca said that he or she who learns how to die unlearns slavery; and Montaigne said that to philosophize is to learn how to die.
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The character of Seneca thus finds just the right mixture of true compassion and the ranting of an alcoholic and sententious philosopher, whose servile disciples note down everything he says with ridiculous fury.
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He was dead before the conspiracy of Piso: Bracciolini could have seen that had he read carefully the letters of Seneca himself; for the philosopher and statesman speaks of Natalis at the time when he wrote the letter numbered in his works 87, as being dead some time, and "having many heirs" as he had been "the heir of many": -- "Nuper Natalis ... et multorum haeres fuit, et multos habuit haeredes" (Ep. LXXXVII.)
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century
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Plutarkes opinions are Platonicall, gentle and accommodable unto civill societie: Senecaes Stoicall and
Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
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Although he writes less in the tradition of Boehme than that of Epictetus and Seneca, Schopenhauer echoes
The Melancholic Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction
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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. Seneca
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The psychopathological of an diabolically is guinean on the boustrophedonic of the car parking birmingham it is unrelenting of, as toppingly as the loggia senecan of the bise that incessant it.
Rational Review
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. Seneca
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There's a reason why you were called a sophist seneca...
"The Waterboard Thrill Ride" art installation.
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Chandak, a 13-year-old seventh grader at Seneca Falls Middle School, spelled "sententious",
News Channel 9: Local News
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Fate leads the willing and drag along the unwilling. --- Seneca.
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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. Seneca
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All cruelty springs from weakness. Seneca
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This was a commentary on the two books of Seneca, "De Clementia," originally addressed to the Emperor
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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OSWEGO, NY - There's an empty chair at the bridge table today as May Hale, 97, a former resident of Springside at Seneca Hill, passed away Monday Sept. 20, 2010, at Oswego
Oswego County Today
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Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men. Seneca
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So many casualties there are, that as Seneca said of a city consumed with fire, Una dies interest inter maximum civitatem et nullam, one day betwixt a great city and none: so many grievances from outward accidents, and from ourselves, our own indiscretion, inordinate appetite, one day betwixt a man and no man.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Seneca (Ep.xxvii. 7) reports that one Calvisius Sabinus paid 100,000 sestertii apiece for slaves learned in the Greek classics.
Mind the Gap
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Why is it that the self-aggrandizements of Cicero, the lecheries and whining of Ovid and the blatherings of that debauched old goose Seneca made it onto the Net before the works that give us solid technical information about what Rome was really good at, viz. the construction of her great buildings and works of engineering?
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Now, Claudius extended the pomoerium in A.D. 50, so this must have been written in A.D. 49, as the book was brought out after Seneca's return from exile.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
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For clemency, in mitigating punishment, "is guided by reason," according to Seneca (De Clementia ii, 5), and meekness, likewise, moderates anger according to right reason, as stated in _Ethic. _ iv, 5.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it. Seneca
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V v 5 & X xx (xix) 10); this fits well with the younger Seneca's description of Albinovanus as _fabulator elegantissimus_.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. Seneca
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Seneca declares that folly is its own burden, — omnis stultitia laborat fastidio sui, — a very true saying, with which may be compared the words of Jesus, the son of Sirach, The life of a fool is worse than death9.
The Wisdom of Life
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In Senecaville, Ohio, there was an abandoned old house on a hill called Mount Nebo by the locals.
Babes with a Beatitude
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Elsewhere in the same wall, emblazoned on books, are the names of Virgil, Homer, Cicero (TVLIO), Seneca, and Duns Scotus, whose portraits are included among the uomini illustri.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Seneca said in an SEC filing that the deal doesn ' t capture the long-term intrinsic value of Dynegy ' s business, which we believe is very well positioned to capture the benefits of a recovery in electricity prices.
Seneca Capital Nominates Two Directors for Dynegy Board
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In fact, in most soils, there are counteracting influences which neutralize, more or less effectually, the desiccative action of roots, and in general it is as true as it was in Seneca's time, that "the shadiest grounds are the moistest.
The Earth as Modified by Human Action
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And Seneca tells us, "Curse leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.
The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes $p Volume 12
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. Seneca
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. Seneca
