Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes on Mind (15 Quotes)

See how does great prosperity overspreads the mind with darkness.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

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

True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us, and within our reach but we shut our eyes and, like people in the dark, fall foul of the very thing we search for without finding it. Tranquility is a certain quality of mind which no condition of fortune can either exalt or depress.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.

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.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

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

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

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.

We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.