Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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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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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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