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Maxioms by Seneca (lucius Annaeus Seneca)

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Revenge is an inhuman word.
[Lat., Inhumanum verbum est ultio.]

Revenge is an inhuman word.
[Lat., Inhumanum verbum est ultio.]

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The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.
[Lat., Miserias properant suas
Audire miseri.]

The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.
[Lat., Miserias properant suas
Audire miseri.]

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It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
[Lat., Saepe satius fuit dissimulare quam read more

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
[Lat., Saepe satius fuit dissimulare quam ulcisci.]

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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.]

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Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness,
even while receiving it.
[Lat., Qui read more

Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness,
even while receiving it.
[Lat., Qui gratus futurus est statim dum accipit de reddendo
cogitet.]

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