A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

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"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."

- Niccolo Machiavelli

Courage

"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred."

- Niccolo Machiavelli

Leadership

"It is better to be feared than to be loved, if you cannot be both."

- Niccolo Machiavelli

Leadership

"A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests."

- Niccolo Machiavelli

Faith

"Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others."

- Niccolo Machiavelli

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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

Adversity

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

- Frederick Douglass

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