Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) ( 10 of 70 )
If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to
yourself.
If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to
yourself.
Light griefs are communicative, great ones stupefy.
[Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.]
Light griefs are communicative, great ones stupefy.
[Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.]
Light troubles speak; immense troubles are silent.
[Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.]
Light troubles speak; immense troubles are silent.
[Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.]
Great grief does not of itself put an end itself.
[Lat., Magnus sibi ipse non facit finem dolor.]
Great grief does not of itself put an end itself.
[Lat., Magnus sibi ipse non facit finem dolor.]
He gives a benefit twice who gives quickly.
[Lat., Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.]
He gives a benefit twice who gives quickly.
[Lat., Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.]
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that
received it disclose it.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that
received it disclose it.
[Lat., Qui dedit beneficium taceat; narret; qui accepit.]
A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
[Lat., Maliuolum solacii genus est turba miserorum.]
A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
[Lat., Maliuolum solacii genus est turba miserorum.]
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
[Lat., Multa trepidus solet
Detegere vultus.]
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
[Lat., Multa trepidus solet
Detegere vultus.]
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
[Lat., Eodem animo beneficium debetur, quo datur.]
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
[Lat., Eodem animo beneficium debetur, quo datur.]
He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which
has been bestowed upon him; he is read more
He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which
has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he
is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all
is he who forgets it.
[Lat., Ingratus est, qui beneficium accepisse se negat, quod
accepit: ingratus est, qui dissimulat; ingratus, qui non reddit;
ingratissimus omnium, qui oblitus est.]
