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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.

Seneca the Younger

There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fall Wisdom
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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Help May Need
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ambition Know Mind
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
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.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Conscience Foundation Joy True
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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Character Crooked Need
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
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.
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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
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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Hatred Men Revenge
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Foundation Joy True Vex

Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.

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