Date: c. 43 AD
"And so the mind can never suffer exile, since it is free, kindred to the gods, and at home in every world and every age; for its thought ranges over all heaven and projects itself into all past and future time."
preview | full record— Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (c. 4 B.C. - A.D. 65)
Date: c. 43 AD
"Those things that men's untutored hearts revere, sunk in the bondage of their bodies--jewels, gold, silver, and polished tables, huge and round--all these are earthly dross, for which the untainted spirit, conscious of its own nature, can have no love, since it is itself light and uncumbered, wa...
preview | full record— Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (c. 4 B.C. - A.D. 65)