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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

Seneca the Younger

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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Leisure Praying
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
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
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?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Kindness Life
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
One crime has to be concealed by another.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Philosophical Prison
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fear Light Philosophical
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Freedom Integrity Responsibility
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Lying Money Political
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Book Mind Together
One hand washes the other.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Life People
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Delight Help Others Support
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Doubt Hope Mingle Wise

Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

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