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

Seneca the Younger

The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Master Slave Tyranny
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Giving Teeth
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Down Hand Let Pit
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
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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Grace Judge Pain
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Christian Emotion Give Men
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Addiction Life Positive Thinking
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War

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

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