There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
From Lucius Annaeus Seneca
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
Time discovers truth.
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
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