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 YOUNGERLeisure without literature is death and burial alive.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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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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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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