The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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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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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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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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