Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERStudy rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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