There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThose who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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