May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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