Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who is brave is free.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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He who is brave is free.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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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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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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