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Luck never made a man wise.

Seneca the Younger

Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Secret Tedious Truth
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Life Wisdom
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heal Inspirational Reason
As long as you live, learn how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Live Long
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

God Superstitions Worship
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Leisure Praying
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Success Wisdom
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion People Person World
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Lying Money Political
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Changed Investing Situation
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Idea Men Work Write
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Affection Coal Squares
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Foundation Joy True Vex
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alive Death Literature
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alcohol Drink Insanity
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fear Light Philosophical

Luck never made a man wise.

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