Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

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"Anger is short-lived madness."

- Horace

Awareness

"Aurea mediocritas"

- Horace

Balance

"Riches either serve or govern the possessor."

- Horace

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"Never despair."

- Horace

Courage

"Carpe diem."

- Horace

Motivation

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

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"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

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"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

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"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

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