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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.

Seneca the Younger

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Lying Money Political
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Stores Use
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Judge Persuade Sin
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Advice Body Disease
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help May Need
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Everybody Friend Life Own
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Knowledge Learning Love
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 YOUNGER

Freedom Integrity Responsibility
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Leisure Praying
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Affection Coal Squares
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophical Pilot Storm
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cures Fail Reason
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Insane Insanity Men
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Leisure Vice

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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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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