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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

Seneca the Younger

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Excess Pleasure Repetition
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heart Think View
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Action Destination Honor
Luck never made a man wise.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Wisdom Wise
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Punishment Suicidal
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help May Need
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Knowledge Learning Love
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Infidelity Men Wife
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Applaude Causes Proof

Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

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