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"It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.""
Of Adversity.
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"Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity."
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1.
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"[Quoting Seneca] Cornelia kept her in talk till her children came from school, "and these," said she, "are my jewels.""
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 3.
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"On thy fair bosom, silver lake, The wild swan spreads his snowy sail, And round his breast the ripples break As down he bears before the gale."
To Seneca Lake.
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"Whom they have injured they also hate."
De Ira. ii. 33.
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"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men."
De Providentia. 5, 9.
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"There is no great genius without a tincture of madness."
De Tranquillitate Animi. 17.
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"Do you seek Alcides' equal? None is, except himself."
Hercules Furens. i. 1, 84.
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"Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue."
Hercules Furens. 255.
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"A good man possesses a kingdom."
Thyestes. 380.
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"I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man."
On a Happy Life. 2. (L' Estrange's Abstract, Chap. i.)
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