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Do not, I beg you, dread those things which the immortal gods apply to our minds like spurs: misfortune is virtue's opportunity.
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Fortune lashes and mangles us: well, let us endure it: it is not cruelty, it is a struggle, in which the oftener we engage the braver we shall become.
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Great men, I say, often rejoice at crosses of fortune just as brave soldiers do at wars.
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Misfortunes press hardest on those who are unacquainted with them: the yoke feels heavy to the tender neck.
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There are a thousand other instances in which application has conquered all obstacles, and proved that nothing which the mind has set itself to endure is difficult.