Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.Seneca
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
Philosopher · 4 BCE – 65
Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman, author of Letters to Lucilius.
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