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 YoungerHappy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
Seneca the YoungerAnger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.
Seneca the YoungerWhat if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper.
Seneca the Younger