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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

Seneca the Younger

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Conscience Foundation Joy True
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Inspirational Success Tattoo
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
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.
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Book Mind Together
Men learn while they teach.
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Education Inspirational Teacher

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