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But the harder these things are to bear, the more virtue you must summon to your aid, and the more bravely you must struggle as it were with an enemy whom you know well, and whom you have already often conquered. This blood did not flow
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“When people are actively engaged in a cause their lives have more purpose… with a resulting improvement in mental health,” Lyons wrote in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research in 1979. “It would be irresponsible to suggest violence as a means of improving mental health, but the Belfast findings suggest that people will feel better psychologically if they have more involvement with their community.”
― Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
― Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ”
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“What Chance has made yours is not really yours.”
― Moral Letters to Lucilius Volume 1
― Moral Letters to Lucilius Volume 1
“The beauty and the tragedy of the modern world is that it eliminates many situations that require people to demonstrate a commitment to the collective good.”
― Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
― Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
“What has the future in store for me, if stones of my own age are already crumbling?”
― Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Illustrated: Tragedies. Epistles. Essays. Seneca's Letters from a Stoic and others
― Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Illustrated: Tragedies. Epistles. Essays. Seneca's Letters from a Stoic and others
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