"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."
-Epicurus
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"It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself."
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"If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another."
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"There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men."
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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
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"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
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