No crime has been without a precedent.
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More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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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.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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After death there is nothing.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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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.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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