Roman - Statesman | 5 BC - 65 AD
The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RememberBearThingsHardest
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
GreatGreatnessMindMeasureDislike
There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
AnythingDelightOwning
It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
DareDifficultThingsVenture
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
MenGrowSweatOldForceWear
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
EvilMadnessNothingFoolishBefore
Modesty forbids what the law does not.
LawModestyDoes
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
BadHarvestMustEvenAfterSowing
He who has great power should use it lightly.
PowerGreatWhoHeShouldLightly
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
RichKnowWillPoorNeverNoble
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
PowerArtEndureFirstAspireAble
Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
LightNightRatherThanOurThem
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