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May Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
- Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
- Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your…
- The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect…
- The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
- There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of…
- True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest…
- I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks…
- The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.
- However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
- Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of…
- When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
- Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
- He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it
- There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to…
- We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust…
- 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…
- Forgive that you may be forgiven.
- Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be…
- 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.
- He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
- The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is…
- As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
- What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.
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