Crime Quotes by Seneca the Younger

15 Crime quotes by Seneca the Younger

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Seneca’s stoic lens turns crime into a lesson in self‑discipline. In fifteen concise observations, the Roman philosopher reminds us that unchecked desire erodes virtue, urging a calm, measured response to wrongdoing.

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Crime requires further crime to conceal it.

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While crime is punished it yet increases.

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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.

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Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.

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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.

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The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

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No crime has been without a precedent.

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Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor.

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Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

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Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.

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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences…

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So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be…

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He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

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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…

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Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

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