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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 Younger

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?
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Mind Speech View
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Conscience Foundation Joy True
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
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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Innocence Men Mind
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time

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.

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