Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
SENECA
Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
More Seneca Quotes
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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True happiness is 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 sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.
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No one can keep a mask on long.
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What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Find a path or make one.
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
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To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.
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A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
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Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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