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 YOUNGERPrecepts 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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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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One hand washes the other.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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