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• Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants. -- Seneca, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium CIV, c. 63
• Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. -- Seneca (BC 3-65 AD)
• Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. -- Seneca, 65 AD
• What fools these mortals be. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C. - A.D. 65)
• Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation. -- Seneca
• Everything has two handles,--one by which it may be borne
  another by which it cannot. -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Enchiridion, xliii...
• To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable
  but everything reasonable may be supported. -- Epictetus (c....
• Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. -- Seneca (8 BC) -- De Providentia, 5, 9
• Everything that can happen, does. -- Worf's Law