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

Seneca the Younger

Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Brother Mind Wicked
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Color Life Mastery Wisdom
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Accept Condonement Genius Measure
The part of life which we really live is short.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Part Really Short
He who is brave is free.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bravery Freedom Reality
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Gratitude Profit Virtue
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Forward Life Look Past
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Pain Release
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Although Care Long Men
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion History People Person
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Perseverance Sowing
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Allay Counsel Grief Light
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ambition Know Mind
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Leadership Love Rule

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

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