The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBe silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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