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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Seneca the Younger

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Despise Hate Hateful
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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End Eternity Fear
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Joy Men
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Men Thrown Ungrateful
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Burn Grief Secret
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work

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