No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will.
mind action actions
..a sword never kills anybody it's a tool in the killer's hand. From Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Letters to Lucilius on Morals, Letter 87, c.63 65
sword letters letter hand morals
It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
good matter books
Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
man death alive books
All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.
laughter weeping things
The primary sign of a well ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.
ability mind company linger place sign
He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.
hopes eyes sick legacy sheep weak
discipline human powerful heart evil
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
absence age courage fear mastery resistance brave coward part compliment
Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. Epistulae ad Lucilium
fate fate&destiny
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
fortune fate nature names call god fate&destiny
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
travel thetimes time theend friends person acquaintances
Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
philosophy life living gift gods immortal
Why does no one confess his sins Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.
sleep dreams man sins
No man ever became wise by chance.
chance man wise
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