Seneca the Younger Quotes About Bravery

• He who is brave is free.

  Seneca the Younger

  Freedom, Reality, Bravery

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• The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

  Seneca the Younger

  Courage, Powerful, Adversity

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• Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.

  Seneca the Younger

  Powerful, Spring, Rain

• Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Courage

  "De Providentia" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 9-10., 1922.

• Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Sight, Evil

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• ...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Bravery, Admirable

• Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

  Seneca the Younger

  Courage, Adversity, Men

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