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 YOUNGERDeath either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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