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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

Seneca the Younger

We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Steer Talk Vessel
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Error First Step
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Epileptic Precaution Regard
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Land Travel World
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Home Life Short Spiritual
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Drunkenness People Vices
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Good Innocence Law
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Down Hand Let Pit
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Enough Language Truth
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Medicine Men Search Sick
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Consistency Deed
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Judge Persuade Sin
To the stars through difficulties.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Difficulty Live Stars
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Accept Condonement Genius Measure
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anything Delight Help Other
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beforehand Come Foresight Present
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Inspirational Other Positive
In every good man a God doth dwell.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Good Man Very
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
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Escape Necessity Overcoming
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bear Mind Money Wealth
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cause Loss Negligence
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Pain Release
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feel Philosophical Real
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Light might People
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Idea Men Work Write
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hatred Men Revenge

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