May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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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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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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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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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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