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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
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| “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” ―Lucius Annaeus Seneca Source/Notes: As quoted in: Great thoughts from Latin authors (1884), Craufurd Tait Ramage, J. B. Alden, 1884, p. 571 |
| Source/Notes: In Latin: "Confragosa in fastigium dignitatis via est." - Letter LXXXIV: On gathering ideas, line 13 - Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius) |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nationality: Roman
Occupation: Statesman
Bio: Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca or Seneca the Younger) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero. While he was later forced to commit suicide for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate Nero, the last of the Julio-Claudian emperors, he may have been innocent.
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