Maxims on Secluding One’s Self.

Omolayo Ayeni
Jul 28, 2017 · 1 min read

“Avoid whatever pleases the crowd: avoid the gifts of Chance. Halt before every good which Chance brings to you, in a spirit of doubt and fear; for it is dumb animals and fish that are deceived by tempting hopes.” — Seneca


“Hold tight, then, to this second and wholesome rule of life — that you indulge the body only so far as is needful for good health.” — Seneca


“Despise everything that useless toil creates as an ornament and an object of beauty. And reflect that nothing except the soul is worthy of wonder; for to the soul, if it be great, nothing is greater.” — Seneca


“Believe me, those who seem to be busied with nothing are busied with the greater tasks; they are dealing at the same time with things mortal and things immortal.” — Seneca


“What Chance has made yours is not really yours.” — Lucilius


“The good that can be given, can be removed.” — Lucilius

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