The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Men learn while they teach.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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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.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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