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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

Seneca the Younger

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
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Men World
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Give Judgement
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Humble Men Poverty
Time discovers truth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Discover Life Time Truth
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

End Eternity Fear
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Education Men Teacher
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
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?”
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dresses Fear Number
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Men Nature Return
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Addiction Life Positive Thinking
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Generation Humanity Passion
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blessed Blessing Confidence
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Director Teacher Vice
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Men Mind
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Goal Management Planning

Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

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