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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Seneca the Younger

The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Foundation Moderation Unstable
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Desire Judge Persuade Sin
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying

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