Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLet him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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He 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.
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Every journey has an end.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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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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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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