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?
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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