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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

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Mind Peace
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blessed Blessing Confidence
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heaven Soul Taken
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Number Slavery

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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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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