No crime has been without a precedent.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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