Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREvery journey has an end.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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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 chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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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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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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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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