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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

Seneca the Younger

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Brave Joy Laughing True
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

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