Seneca admonished us: "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."
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Seneca admonished us: "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."
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Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus are the three most important Stoic philosophers.
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Seneca was a hypocrite who didn't live according to the principles that he preached.
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Seneca was always a little touchy about Cornutus's style, and he was now thoroughly angry, for he was not accustomed to be thus bluntly addressed by one so immeasurably beneath him in rank.
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