Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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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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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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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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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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