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We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

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Body, Should, Ought

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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Taken, Heaven, Soul

God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.

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God, Eye, Men

You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.

Seneca the Younger
Winning, Ideas, Numbers

Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.

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Money, Party, Long

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: " Is this the condition that I feared?"

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Fear, Numbers, Dresses

The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

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Wise, Men, Hands

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

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Law, Doe, Modesty
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To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand

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Hands, Sweat, Sailing

Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.

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Wish, Just Live

The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.

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Wise, Mind, Able

The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.

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Soul, Delight, Divinity

If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

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Wisdom, Delight, Shut Up

The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that are not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace of another, who are under orders in case of the freest things in the world-loving and hating. If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own.

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Hate, Sleep, Order

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

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Men, Deceit, Distrust

The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.

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Destiny, Drag, Guides

Golden roofs break men's rest.

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Men, Golden, Wealth

True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.

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True Joy, Laughing, Brave

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

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Life, Motivational, Wisdom

What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

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Struggle, Choices, Littles

A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

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Prayer, People, Justice

He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.

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Inspirational, Way, Ends

When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.

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Letting Go, Tutor, Thyself

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca the Younger
Love, Friendship, Benefits
"Epistolæ Ad Lucilium", XXXV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

Seneca the Younger
Self Esteem, Thinking, Attachment

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