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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

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

Happiness Leisure Vice
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alive Death Literature
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Believe Birthday Happiness
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Lying Money Political
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
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Chance Hatred Wrath
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Congratulations Success Think
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Law Name Successful
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Poison Sweet
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Book Mind Together
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Land Travel World
People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Die People Philosophy Themselves
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Steer Talk Vessel
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Attack Blow Revenge Wise
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
SENECA THE YOUNGER

heavy Oneself Servitude
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Men Wise

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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