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  • #1
    “Either be silent, or say something better than silence.”
    Publilius Syrus, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus

  • #2
    “It’s a bad plan that can’t be changed.”
    Publilius Syrus

  • #3
    “Practice is the best of all instructors”
    Publilius Syrus

  • #4
    “As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.”
    Publilius Syrus

  • #5
    “When the world hates you, see that it has no good reason therefor.”
    Publius Syrus, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave

  • #6
    “You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.”
    Publius Syrus

  • #7
    “It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.”
    Publilius Syrus, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave

  • #8
    “A wise man will be the master of his mind. A fool will be it's slave.”
    Publilius Syrus

  • #9
    “In quarreling, the truth is always lost.”
    Publilius Syrus

  • #10
    “One ungrateful man does an injury to all who are in suffering.”
    Publilius Syrus

  • #11
    “Even in death, a good man would not deceive.”
    Publius Syrus, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave

  • #12
    “He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.”
    Publius Syrus

  • #13
    “The defect which one period of life fastens upon us, another will remove.”
    Publius Syrus, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave

  • #14
    “There's nothing which the lapse of time will not either extinguish or improve.”
    Publius Syrus, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave

  • #15
    “To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.”
    Publius Syrus, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave

  • #16
    “Even when we get what we wish, it is not ours.”
    Publius Syrus, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave

  • #17
    “Mighty rivers may easily be leaped at their source”
    Publilius Syrus, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave

  • #18
    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.”
    François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

  • #19
    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.”
    Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  • #20
    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.”
    François de La Rochefoucauld

  • #21
    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.”
    Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Reflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims

  • #22
    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.”
    Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

  • #23
    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.”
    François de La Rochefoucauld

  • #24
    Seneca
    “True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
    Seneca

  • #25
    Seneca
    “Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
    Seneca

  • #26
    Seneca
    “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #27
    Seneca
    “If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
    Seneca the Younger

  • #28
    Seneca
    “It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”
    Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters

  • #29
    Seneca
    “It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

  • #30
    Seneca
    “He who is brave is free”
    Seneca



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