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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

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
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophy Plato Science
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.
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Down Hand Let Pit
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
If you wish to be loved, love.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Life Love People Person
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion People Person World
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Despise Hate Hateful
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Failure Happiness
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
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
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
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life

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