Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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After death there is nothing.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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