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Doing the Ashes Work

Brutal American Podcast

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The Value of Adversity to a Great Man From Seneca

On providence five b c t 65 a d was the life of lucius aeneus seneca. Seneca: No proof of virtue is ever mild. If we are lashed and torn by fortune, let us bear it. It is not cruelty, but a struggle. The staunchest member of the body is the one that is kept in constant use. We should offer ourselves to fortune in that order,. struggling with her, we may be hardened by her. Gradually she will make us a match for herself.

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