Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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If you judge, investigate.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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