"Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got."

Will, Statesman, Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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"Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got."

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"And so there is no reason for you to think that any man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles, he has not lived long " he has existed long. For what if you should think that man had had a long voyage who had been caught by a fierce storm as soon as he left harbour, and, swept hither and thither by a succession of winds that raged from different quarters, had been driven in a circle around the same course? Not much voyaging did he have, but much tossing about."

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