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Justice Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
- We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering…
- It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
- He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.
- 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…
- A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
- 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…
- 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.
- Injustice never rules forever.
- We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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