Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Seneca
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
SENECA Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.. Epictetu...
SENECA In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace
SOPHOCLES Modesty forbids what the law does not.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Modesty forbids what the law does not.
SENECA The 2006 federal Internet gaming statute is not ambiguous. It does not prohibit gambling on fantasy ...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Muslims are required to follow the law of the land and since the law of Australia prohibits a second...
ISLAMIC COUNCIL The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the st...
JOHN LOCKE everything that's happening because of that idiotic (gas cap) law. It's a shame we have to put up wi...
BILL GREEN For lead in children's jewelry and products in general, there is no binding federal law to prohibit ...
CHARLES MARGULIS It is, I believe, better to restrain the passions of youth by a
sense of shame, and by conciliatory...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting att...
LUTHER BURBANK Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attor...
LUTHER BURBANK The amendment goes far beyond just defining marriage between a man and a woman. What it does is proh...
DYANA MASON If they are breaking the law already, a new measurement will not prohibit them from sending those e-...
LOUIS MASTRIA Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the he...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Morality cannot be legislated but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the hea...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. It's a shame; I hope to be able to go before it's too late. It's a bad law; this is hard to believe.
TONY OLIVA No need to feel shame for what you are.
DEYTH BANGER An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all...
IGNAZIO SILON Either the law exists, or it does not.
ANDRE NORTON What we're doing is trying to work with tournaments to facilitate a more successful Monday pro-am. A...
HENRY HUGHES The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly a...
JOHN MARSHALL I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.
CORRINE BROWN What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil.
FULTON J. SHEEN I have had to make a decision I may not agree with, but I am required to follow the letter of the la...
CHARLES T. CANADY What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Co...
BENJAMIN F. FAIRLESS What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Co...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FAIRLESS We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us fr...
G.K. CHESTERTON When religious law becomes civil law, does the state not cease being secular, and become theocratic ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA I think half of what a trainer does is make you feel shame if you don't show up.
STEPHEN MOYER Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
SAINT BASIL He was not born to shame.
Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;
For 'tis a throne where honor...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think the ACLU may be able to support the law here in Kansas. It is being written in a way that do...
CAROLYN BROWN Necessity gives the law, but does not itself submit to it
PUBLILIUS SYRUS There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE There will be no elections in May. We will not change our decision regardless of what Law and Justic...
DONALD TUSK Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of soc...
ROBERT KENNEDY When you make a promise consistent with what is right, you can keep your word. When you show respect...
CONFUCIUS A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
CHINESE PROVERBS You can't put just anybody back there and simulate what Mike can do. With Seneca here, he's really g...
ROCKY BERNARD Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a ...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a ...
BERNARD DE MANDEVILLE The law does not require you to do the impossible. And it was not possible.
DAVID BERNICK Only the one who does not know what is life may believe that it is beautiful and easy.
ALBERT CAMUS What happens to other people does not necessarily will happen to you.
DANIEL MELGAçO Sometimes the scandal is not what law was broken, but what the law allows.
EDWARD SNOWDEN Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
FATEMA MERNISSI Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?
ANNE RICE To be rejected on account of old age may or may not feel the same as being rejected on the basis of ...
ADAM COHEN The suggestion that there is an unwillingness to admit to the jurisdiction of the contractor-general...
DR PETER PHILLIPS The obscenity law is still mired in inconsistency. It simply does not give clear directions as to wh...
ANDREW CHATHAM Revenge itself may indeed be the best revenge, but slaying one's enemy does not give back what they ...
EMILIE AUTUMN The Legislature passed a law that says local governments cannot prohibit a methadone clinic. We coul...
MARC BOLDT He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
[Lat., Id facere laus est quod dec...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) You've taken the Seneca Valley taxpayers for roughly $320,000.
TOM ROTH This march does not just challenge a law but the Western way of thinking.
MANJIT SINGH Her hopeless love swelled up inside her, crying for an outlet, and all she could do was hold it sile...
LYN DUCOTY He pinpointed Helen immediately, despite so many women—all dressed in somber mourning attire—aga...
BECCA ST. JOHN Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step ...
GLORIA STEINEM The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better ...
VACLAV HAVEL Jury nullification allowed citizens to come together and override the law. It is their right to acqu...
DAN ALTMAN What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in
the heart.
EDMUND BURKE Seneca Wallace is a good player. He just hasn't played.
MIKE HOLMGREN It's a shame because not too many people on this team work harder than Michael does, ... But we'll p...
JIM HASLETT You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love,...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Agricultural zoning laws are not real specific and they do not prohibit this kind of thing. What is ...
GENE PETERSEN The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument...
PATRICK HENRY Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?...We see a game beyond the endgame...As Seneca warne...
DAVID MITCHELL I do think we'll look back on it [as] a period of horrible shame and regret for how we treated peopl...
BARBARA OLSHANSKY What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of ...
BERNHARD SCHLINK There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.
RUSSIAN PROVERB Mom and Dad are our first love by nature, our pride by law and our strength in weakness. They may no...
ETC WANYANWU A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First o...
ISAAC ASIMOV It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA What can that faith do for him in his need?
It teaches him to bear adversity
With patience t...
ROBERT FERGUSON This is not what you ordered, ... This is not what the law requires.
RICHARD CONWAY The Three Laws of Robotics:
1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction,...
ISAAC ASIMOV What they're complaining about is the law. It's not fair. We're not happy about it. But it's the law...
LAURA STROMBERG The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with...
CLARENCE DARROW Nudity by itself does not meet the definition of a sexually oriented business under the zoning law.
ANDREW KLINE The law is pretty clear, and it does not appear that they met the 60-day requirement.
JOE DILAURA In Romans 7, St. Paul says, "The law is spiritual." What does that mean? If the law were physical, t...
MARTIN LUTHER You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals ...
LES BROWN Then, everlasting Love, restrain thy will;
'Tis god-like to have power, but not to kill.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER We are monitoring what the Defense Department may do in terms of providing surveillance information ...
LAURA MURPHY I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame...
REBECCA LOOS A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.
JAMES INHOFE The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted ...
HORACE Some nation states prohibit the police from collecting information on their own citizens. But they d...
BOB AYERS You can't prohibit them, but you can control them.
JIM COLLINS Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable...
BUDDHA Carl Junction and Seneca is a big rivalry. I quickly found that out.
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SENECA I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge.
SENECA He will live ill who does not know how to die well.
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SENECA Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
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