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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.

Seneca the Younger

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Avarice Need Poverty
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Judge Persuade Sin
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alive Death Literature
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Giving Teeth
No crime has been without a precedent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Precedent Prison
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Burn Grief Secret
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Generation Humanity Passion
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophy Plato Science
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greatness Men Resolution
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Brave Joy Laughing True
The part of life which we really live is short.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Part Really Short
Luck never made a man wise.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Wisdom Wise
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Hero Life

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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