Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
SENECAThere is no genius without a touch of madness.
More Seneca Quotes
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It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
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Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
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Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
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After death there is nothing.
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Regard a friend as loyal, and you will make him loyal.
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The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
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A good person dyes events with his own colour and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn
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To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.
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No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today
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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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The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.
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