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

Seneca the Younger

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Success Tattoo
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Leadership Philosophical Vision
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Mingle Wise
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way

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

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