One crime has to be concealed by another.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLet him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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