We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNo crime has been without a precedent.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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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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