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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Seneca the Younger

The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise
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
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
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men Remember Tolerance
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
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
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
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
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
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Money Philosophical Slavery

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

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