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Biography - Seneca:

Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman (Approximate years of birth and death).
Born: -4 - Died: 65
Period:
1st century
1st century BC
Place of birth: Spain
Spain

The language of truth is simple.


Note 

Note





The language of truth is simple.



Translation

Translation

(French, Latin, German)



French
Le langage de la vérité est simple.

Latin
Veritatis simplex oratio est.

German
Die Sprache der Wahrheit ist einfach.




See also 

See also...



Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

Simplicity can only exist in what is true.

Great things only require to be simply told.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.




Quotes for: simplicity


Quotes

Quotes about simplicity:


Out of clutter find simplicity ; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.





Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.





Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.





Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.





Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.





There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.











Quotes for: truth


Quotes

Quotes for: truth


To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.





Love truth, but pardon error.





Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.





Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.





Truth prevails only to the extent that we successfully assert it. The victory of reason can only be the victory of rational people.





Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.











Quotes for: Language


Quotes

Quotes for: Language


Language is a source of misunderstanding.





Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.





Language is the house of the truth of Being.





Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.





Language serves not only to express thoughts, but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.





The language of friendship is not words but meanings.











Quotes

Seneca also said...


A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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A great part of progress consists in the desire to make progress.





If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.





Let the other side be heard as well.
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It takes the whole of life to learn how to live.












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