Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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His head was turned by too great success.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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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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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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