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

Seneca the Younger

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
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
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
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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Assuming Honor Men Prompt
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Although Care Long Men
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
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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Down Hand Let Pit
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility

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

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