The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who is brave is free.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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