Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTruth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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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.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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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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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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