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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

Seneca the Younger

If you judge, investigate.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Judge Philosophical Umpire
One crime has to be concealed by another.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Philosophical Prison
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Dying Wonder
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
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
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
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
The part of life which we really live is short.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspiration Life Part Short Success
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learner Library Wander
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

First Give Prudence Science

Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

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