One crime has to be concealed by another.
SENECA THE YOUNGERVice may be learnt, even without a teacher
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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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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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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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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No crime has been without a precedent.
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