“When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.”
-Horace
“No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.”
-Seneca the Younger
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
-Aristotle
“It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.”
-Julius Caesar
“It having pleased the Almighty Ruler of the universe to defend the cause of the United American States, and finally to raise up a powerful friend among the princes of the earth, to establish our liberty and independence upon a lasting foundation, it becomes us to set apart a day for gratefully acknowledging the divine goodness, and celebrating the important event, which we owe to His divine interposition.”
-George Washington
True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future.
-Seneca