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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.

Seneca the Younger

The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Betray Faces Guilt
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Dying Wonder
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Made Own Progress
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Excess Pleasure Repetition
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Down Hand Let Pit
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Successful Temerity Virtue
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Happiness Life
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Destiny Drag Guides
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ambition Limit Progress
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Causes Grieve Sorrow
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alive Death Literature
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Speech View
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Favor Silent Speak
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Success Tattoo

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