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 YOUNGERThere is no genius without a mixture of madness.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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