The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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