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 YOUNGERWatch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Every journey has an end.
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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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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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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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