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

Seneca the Younger

He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Leadership Philosophical Vision
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
[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
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
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
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
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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Happiness Men Powerful
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Infidelity Men Wife
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Wise
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice

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

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