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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

Seneca the Younger

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Law Name Successful
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Despise Hate Hatred
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Inspirational Success Tattoo
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Destiny Fate Inspirational

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