May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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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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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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