No crime has been without a precedent.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDifficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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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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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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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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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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One hand washes the other.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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