May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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Time discovers truth.
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