Seneca the Younger Quotes About Justice

• Injustice never rules forever.

  Seneca the Younger

  Justice, Forever, Injustice

• 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 whole peoples?

  Seneca the Younger

  War, Mad, Justice

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter XCV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1925.

• He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.

  Seneca the Younger

  Justice, Hearing, Sides

• 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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Forgiveness, Wise, Fall

• May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Justice, May

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

• Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Attitude, Adversity

• Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Justice, Expecting

• A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

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  Prayer, People, Justice

• He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.

  Seneca the Younger

  Plato, Mean, Son

• 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 in his conduct.

  Seneca the Younger

  Justice, May, Sides

• 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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Justice, Guilt, Bars

• We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

  Seneca the Younger

  Loss, Justice, Honor

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 462-63, Agamemnon, CXII, 1922.

• It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hands, Justice, Humanity

• 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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kindness, Grateful, Men

• Expediency often silences justice.

  Seneca the Younger

  Justice, Silence, Expediency

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