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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

Seneca the Younger

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Leadership Philosophical Vision
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Men Stores Use
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
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.
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Law Name Successful
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
Men learn while they teach.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science

Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

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