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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca , Statesman
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters....
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials....
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war....
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Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends....
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company....
In war there is no prize for runner-up....
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcend...
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them....

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