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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
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Color Life Mastery Wisdom
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window

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

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