“No life is short that gives a man time to slay himself.”
Vita brevis nulli superest qui tempus in illa
quaerendae sibi mortis habet.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book IV, line 478 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“For life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which man first gives himself.”
Source: The Law and Other Essays on Manifestation
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