The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If you judge, investigate.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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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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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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