Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 25

• Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

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  Justice, Guilt, Bars

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• Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.

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  Limits, Unstable, Position

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• Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

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  Life, Spring, New Beginnings

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• Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

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  Greatness, Men, Pieces

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• We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.

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  God, Born, Monarchy

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• It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.

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  Kindness, Grateful, Men

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• On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!

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  God, Nature, Stars

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• Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

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  Ancestry, Descent, Brag

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all that is sought in pardoning. He will spare some and watch over some, because of their youth, and others on account of their ignorance. His clemency will not fall short of justice, but will fulfill it perfectly.

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  Forgiveness, Wise, Fall

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• As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.

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  Latin, Long, Humane

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• Time discovers truth.

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  Life, Time, Truth

  "On Anger". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 45 AD.

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• Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

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  Philosophical, Succeed, Virtue

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.

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  Mother, Sweet, War

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• Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.

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  Philosophy, Giving, Advice

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• Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

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  Lying, Laughing, Return

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• Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

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  Life, Evil, Fields

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• When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.

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  Modesty, Revive

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• What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed

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  Progress, Made, My Own

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• In every good man a God doth dwell.

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  Men, Good Man, Very Good

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• Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

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  Grief, Light, Dumb

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• Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.

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  Life, Men, Chance

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• Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.

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  Needs, Should, Readiness

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• Do what you should, not what you may.

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  May, Should

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• Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.

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  Men, Numbers, Slavery

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• It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

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  Vices, Virtue

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