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 YOUNGEROn him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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