Stoic
If you would be loved, love.
From Richard Mott Gummere, Moral Letters 9 (1917), quoting Hecato
He who is brave is free.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong people.
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Take away thy opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, ‘I have been harmed.’ Take away the complaint, ‘I have been harmed,’ and the harm is taken away.
Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.