The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFour things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Time discovers truth.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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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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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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