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• Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. -- Seneca (8 BC) -- De Providentia, 5, 9
• Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.
  There is no great genius without a tincture of madness....
• A good man possesses a kingdom. -- Seneca (8 BC) -- Thyestes, 380
• Not lost, but gone before. -- Seneca (8 BC) -- Epistolae, 63, 16
• Quem metuunt, oderunt. (They hate whom they fear.) -- Ennius (239-169 BC)
• Do you seek Alcides' equal? None is, except himself.
  -- Seneca (8 BC) -- Hercules Furens, i, 1, 84...
• Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. -- Seneca (8 BC) -- Hercules Furens, i, 1, 255
• It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. -- Tacitus (54-119 AD) -- Agricola, 42
• I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
  -- Seneca (8 BC) -- On a Happy Life, 2, (L'Estrange's Abstract, Chap, i.)...