No crime has been without a precedent.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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