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No crime has been without a precedent.

Seneca the Younger

It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
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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Conclusion Justice May Side
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
Life without literary studies is death.
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Death Life Literature Study
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
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
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness

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