Psychology Quotes by Seneca the Younger

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

— Seneca the Younger

The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Seneca the Younger

Philosophy is the health of the mind.

— Seneca the Younger

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

— Seneca the Younger

A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.

— Seneca the Younger

Speech is the mirror of the mind.

— Seneca the Younger

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Seneca the Younger

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

— 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

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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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

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

— 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

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

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

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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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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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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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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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

A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of…

— Seneca the Younger

Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted…

— Seneca the Younger

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

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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

— Seneca the Younger

Speech is the index of the mind.

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Seneca the Younger

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

— 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

Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.

— Seneca the Younger

The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.

— Seneca the Younger

To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy…

— Seneca the Younger