Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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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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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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