A Quote by Seneca the Younger

Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law — © Seneca the Younger
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
I have had it with people who are threatening me and my kids and my family over simply commenting on the law and criminal procedure, and respecting juries. Because they do work hard. They work way harder than I do; and they work way harder than the rest of those people making those peanut gallery comments.
It is not truth, justice, liberty, that men seek; they seek only themselves. - And oh, that they knew how to seek themselves aright!
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In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate to more important matters, than written laws, and a man may be a safer ruler than the written law, but not safer than the customary law.
It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.
People want to be part of something that's bigger than themselves. It's motivating. It helps all of us to work harder.
When most people find themselves running afoul of the law, they might change their ways. When the Koch brothers found themselves running afoul of the law, David Koch decided to run for office so that he could change the law.
Everything comes by being! Be the love you seek. Be the friend you seek. Be the lover you seek. Be the honesty you seek. Be the integrity you seek. Be the patience you seek. Be the tolerance you seek. Be the compassion you seek.
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
Everything is harder when you are a Nordestino. You have to work harder than anybody else because people will be judging you with much less mercy than the other players.
We really can't tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves. For example, all revolutionaries say that they want to uplift the downtrodden.
It's harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.
Honor is a harder master than the law.
Few kids seek to learn a skill specifically designed to impress people unless they feel less than impressive themselves.
It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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