The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLet no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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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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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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