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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Seneca the Younger

That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cause Loss Negligence
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Life Wisdom
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Land Travel World
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ambition Limit Progress
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Number Slavery
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Steer Talk Vessel
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greatness Men Piece
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Stores Use
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Intelligence Mediocrity
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Counsel Grief Light People
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Lying Money Political
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Liberal Philosophical Trust
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Disappointment Office Years
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Best Friend Inspirational Life Prayer
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

God Turn Void Work
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Although Care Long Men

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