The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREvery new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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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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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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