

“A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent.”
Traced to Moral Letters to Lucilius.
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“He will find a way, or make one.”
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Hercules Furens
verified“All art is but imitation of nature.”
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Moral Letters to Lucilius
verified“Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.”
Seneca
Moral Letters to Lucilius
verified“The best ideas are common property.”
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Moral Letters to Lucilius
verified“Men learn while they teach.”
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Moral Letters to Lucilius
verified“Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardships of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.”
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Moral Letters to Lucilius
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“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
Helen Keller
The Simplest Way to be Happy · 1933
verified“No doubt the reason is that character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
Helen Keller
Helen Keller's Journal · 1938
verified“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”
Helen Keller
We Bereaved · 1929
verified“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
You Learn by Living · 1960
verified“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Harijan · 1947
verified“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
Mahatma Gandhi
The Doctrine of the Sword, Young India · 1920
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