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 YOUNGERWhy will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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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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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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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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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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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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