In every good man a God doth dwell.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPrecepts 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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