Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote

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"Una gema no puede ser pulida sin fricción"

Translations

“We are more often frightened than hurt”

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you'll be able to use them better when you're older ”

“What fortune has made yours is not your own.”

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”

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