If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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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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The part of life which we really live is short.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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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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After death there is nothing.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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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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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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