The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREven after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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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 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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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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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.
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