When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLet him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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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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