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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Seneca the Younger

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Evil Real Suffering
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
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.
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Death Joy Men
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise

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