One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
From Lucius Annaeus Seneca
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
All art is but imitation of nature.
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
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