Mind Quotes by Seneca the Younger

A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.

— Seneca the Younger

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

— Seneca the Younger

Philosophy is the health of the mind.

— Seneca the Younger

It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.

— Seneca the Younger

Speech is the mirror of the mind.

— Seneca the Younger

The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.

— Seneca the Younger

The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.

— Seneca the Younger

A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.

— Seneca the Younger

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

— Seneca the Younger

The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind,…

— Seneca the Younger

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

— Seneca the Younger

It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

— Seneca the Younger

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.

— Seneca the Younger

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness…

— Seneca the Younger

Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.

— Seneca the Younger

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

— Seneca the Younger

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or…

— Seneca the Younger

The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.

— Seneca the Younger

It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to…

— Seneca the Younger

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes… The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger…

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Seneca the Younger

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is…

— Seneca the Younger

Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his…

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There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we…

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Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication… Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths… But in…

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Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips…

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Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of…

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When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that…

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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who…

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We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What…

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All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that…

— Seneca the Younger

It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one…

— Seneca the Younger

I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.

— Seneca the Younger

What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved

— Seneca the Younger

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

— Seneca the Younger

Speech is the index of the mind.

— Seneca the Younger

The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.

— Seneca the Younger

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

— Seneca the Younger

The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.

— Seneca the Younger

How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.

— Seneca the Younger