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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.

Seneca the Younger

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fear Thing Think
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Book Mind Together
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Blow Thinking
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Punishment Suicidal
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Birthday End Eternity Fear
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fate Guilt Guilty
In every good man a God doth dwell.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Good Man Very
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cures Fail Reason
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Leadership Love Rule
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fear Heaven
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Give Judgement
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Deed Punishment Wickedness
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Everybody Friend Life Own
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Men Wise
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Master Slave Tyranny

Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.

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