The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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