Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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He who is brave is free.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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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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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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