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“Fire tries gold, misfortune tries brave men.”

— Seneca, On Providence, 5.9 (translation by Aubrey Stewart)

About Seneca

4 BC – 65

Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist. His letters and essays on Stoic philosophy remain some of antiquity's most readable and practically applicable works.

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