No crime has been without a precedent.
SENECA THE YOUNGERJust as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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