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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.

Seneca the Younger

He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beforehand Come Foresight Present
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Book Mind Together
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Demand Equal Wicked
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Brave Men
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help May Need
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Made Own Progress
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Freedom Men Simplicity
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Director Teacher Vice
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Half More Trouble
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Mind Peace
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Laughter
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Number Slavery
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Invites Refusal Request
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Numbers Peril Slavery
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ambition Know Mind

The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.

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