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

Seneca the Younger

Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Happiness Inspirational Laughter
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
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
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Wise
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger

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

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