Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAs the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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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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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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