The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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He who is brave is free.
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Time discovers truth.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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After death there is nothing.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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