The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

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• Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

  It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

• Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

  He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

• Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

  Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then

• Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

  It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

• Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

  Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one

• Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

  Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender

• Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

  Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

• Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

  Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

• Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

  There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with coura

• Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

  No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one