Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
Seneca
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Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity
SENECA Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
[Lat., Ignis aurum probat, misera fortes viros.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resist...
JEAN NICHOLAS GROU Taking he SAT is like going to the doctor. It scares the willies out of you, but once you get there ...
JEAN NICHOLAS GROU We're still awaiting some tests to come back early but it probably looks like he's done for the year...
BRENDAN TAMAN Training in that cold pool of a morning really tests you, whether you really want to do it or not,
IAN THORPE We've done a variety of simple tests, but we can't do every conceivable experiment. But a hundred ot...
BARRY WANNER We'd like to know what tests were conducted.
APHALUCK BHATIASEVI His condition continues to be critical. More tests and investigations would be carried out in next s...
ANUPAM VERMA They did a chest CAT scan for him and a back MRI and some blood tests and it didn't show any cancer....
BAKHTIAR AMIN Each of these tests is demanding but eminently deliverable. We are working as hard as we possibly ca...
JACK STRAW Maybe what we'll find is that you really need a combination of two tests, again, because not one tes...
DONALD LOW We've always stood up well in comparison with our competitors in technical tests but users disliked ...
JON VON TETZCHNER It's costing several thousands of dollars in extra chemicals, tests and cleaning up. We don't want a...
BLANCHE PROKES We're looking at the development of genetic tests which are easy and robust with a quick turnaround.
CHARLES YATES This area has one of the highest levels of radon in the nation. The tests we've done on homes in thi...
CECIL KEEN The initial tests are negative for bird flu.
CELIA ABOLNIK I had heard about them [acid tests] and was deeply offended along with everybody else in my sort of ...
JOHN PERRY BARLOW When we do the regular tests on a sample that contains THG we don't see it, ... It disintegrates. It...
DON CATLIN The physician may also recommend additional tests if necessary.
DR. WILMA WOOTEN We're still conducting a number of tests, but the early results are encouraging.
DOUG WARD I umpired three of the Tests in 1981 when Ian Botham was doing his stuff and this was better than al...
DICKIE BIRD It appears the parts do match. We are doing further tests.
EDWARD WINTER We ran a number of tests and were not fully satisfied with procedures being followed for accepting c...
ELIOT BRENNER He has had a lot of tests done, and we are not quite sure what it is. We did not think he was going ...
DAVID NUCIFORA The tests have really taken off. There's been an explosion, to be honest.
DAVID ASHWORTH The tests have all abided by legal process and technical standards.
FANG XIANGDONG If you're above the state average (on the MEAP tests), you should feel comfortable about the AYP.
GAYLE GREEN The tests that need to be done are not onerous, too difficult or too expensive. Some companies might...
GLENN BRANK It's been working, you know? We haven't had anybody suspended, I know that. We've been going through...
GLENN MURRAY We may do more tests this year to review fungicide use protocols and try to find out when spraying i...
GREG SHANER One difference between this plan and the others is that our standards and the state tests are much b...
JANET WALSH I'm really thankful, because I don't know what I'd do without it. I really need all my supplies. My ...
JANET MORAN We did four different tests on those samples.
JAMES NOKES The temperature reached as high as 2,500 degrees Kelvin during the tests. High temperatures mean hig...
HENRY HARRIS These were sold as safe systems. They passed tests as safe systems. But?there is a way to rig an ele...
ION SANCHO Tests show that remote interpreting can be done but it is not necessarily pleasant for the interpre...
IAN ANDERSEN There are no nuclear tests planned or desired.
IRENE SMITH The sale is contingent on several factors, including satisfactory soil tests and local and state eco...
MARC ELLIOTT We give the Terra Nova test so ISTEP is not the first big test they take. Terra Nova tests similar s...
LINDA STEPHENSON After 19 treatments, finding out I was pregnant, I was in absolute shock. I did three tests because ...
LISA LYE The initial tests of the samples show that the poultry are negative for bird flu.
KAO PHAL If a patient comes in with chest pains, we'll hook them up for an EKG and do other tests. Patients s...
KAI GERKEY All of those who are going to be on start lists for tomorrow had tests that were negative. I feel so...
JUERG CAPOL All of those who are going to be on start lists for tomorrow had tests that were negative.
JUERG CAPOL Unfortunately, we won't know until tests come back whether it is confirmed or not.
JULIE GRAHAM There were a bunch of things, cold, bronchitis. I ended up passing out during the tests.
JOEY SEARLE In my view, the standardized tests we'd want to distribute on a national level simply do not exist.
JOE GLOVER I never reached that point. But I can see where families can get that far. It tests your coping skil...
JENNIFER OWEN Eight swans have been taken to the Croatian Veterinary Institute for tests to see if they are carryi...
MLADEN PAVIC The lap times improved continuously throughout the tests and the long runs were OK compared to the f...
NORBERT HAUG You wouldn't know they were sick if you hadn't taken the tests. They're eating, not coughing. There ...
SALLY GOSWELL They'll do quite a lot of medical tests, they'll take blood tests, urine tests, and they will also w...
BRIAN HARVEY Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Chemotherapy tests your sanity.
MELISSA ETHERIDGE All tests came back negative.
ALAIN CHARETTE Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
SAM ERVIN [Sgt. Jim Cooper, a spokesman for the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office, said tests] seem to be goi...
THEODORE KACZYNSKI The latest tests not only escalate the nuclear race in South Asia but more importantly divert scare ...
FIDEL RAMOS There is sort of this fear what if they score the tests wrong?
ALEXANDRA JIANG We're not getting much new information from the tests, and have been looking for a way to do more si...
ADRIAN LUND We've done different tests on these birds but we haven't found anything. We don't know the reason. W...
BEHROUZ YASEMI We're building items for future tests.
ANNETTE BOHLING He's lucky to be alive. Doctors ordered him out of the lineup in March when tests revealed he had bl...
ARGUS HAMILTON A lot of people who need things like blood tests can't afford them.
ANN KJERA It was a great day yesterday. He did some tests and the knee was better than the other knee. I was j...
BERNARD WARD Pakistan has made no mention of ending our tests, ... We have a missile program, and it is in the na...
AYUB KHAN I have done three makeup tests and I'm very, very happy with them. I am completely unrecognizable.
BEN KINGSLEY The tests we've had do not inspire confidence,
ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON All the tests so far have come back normal. I am just anxious to get back to work.
JERRY KILL [I know some of you out there consider athletic contests to be tests of skill, but most who have coa...
JULIA STILES We have to get student testing done by the end of the week and then testing companies pick tests up ...
BOB HARRY Peace hath higher tests of manhood.Than battle ever knew.
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER The testing explosion often creates overlaps between tests mandated at the district level, the state...
ROBERT SCHAEFFER The testing explosion often creates overlaps between tests mandated at the district level, the state...
ROBERT SCHAEFFER I'm really excited because of all the English Language Learners we have who scored in the higher ran...
DON ROBERTS I figure we'd might as well have tests for us to get to state so when we get to state it might be a ...
DEANTHONY ZANDERS These kids were willing to take polygraphs. These kids were willing to take blood tests. They were w...
BRIAN LOFTUS Not all of those are different people. Some are patients who come several times a month for tests or...
CONNIE SCHROEDER Operational readiness tests are where the bugs come out. We train so that these problems do come up ...
CINDY SCHULZ These nuclear tests are serious blows to regional security and to the global non-proliferation regim...
FIDEL RAMOS Schools and districts wouldn't face any sanctions because of the lateness of the tests.
GINGER REYNOLDS Every state gets to choose their tests and to define the achievement levels required. And so states ...
HANNA SKANDERA You'll reach the same conclusion as everyone else who's seen those tests: It's cheating,
GREGORY MILLER Based on the results, local tests show he is positive for bird flu.
HARIADI WIBISONO The local tests show he was positive for bird flu .
HARIADI WIBISONO Some films could only have been cast in one way: Screen tests were given and the losers got the part...
GENE SHALIT He passed all the tests at the beginning of the year,
ERIC HEITMANN Tests on the bodies are being done to ascertain whether the deaths were caused by the disease.
JAMES NYIKAL We are pleased to report recent tests show dramatic improvement in his bone density, making surgery ...
JAMES RODGERS Concord grape juice appeared to enhance cognitive and some motor skills in the test animals. In many...
JAMES JOSEPH He was sitting up in bed. They were doing tests. They weren't allowing him to walk around.
JAMES GRANT I was just tested. Someone was just testing me, and I think I passed all the tests.
JAKE LONG That's one of the reasons why we exercise. Anything can happen. And if nothing else, it tests our re...
JACK STEWART I don't think there's anything you can do, unless Bonds tests positive for steroids.
ISAAK LAZAROV Even so, the health ministry has confirmed that the six died of bird flu. Tests in Hong Kong are for...
ILHAM PATU There are an enormous number of tests and pieces that have to be completed before a school system ca...
JAN LANTZ He sits there and absorbs everything and does better than us on calculus tests.
JEFF BOLLING Because he spent a lot of time on the development of the new machine in the winter tests, Nicky had ...
MAKOTO TANAKA Our first two games are going to be big tests heading into districts. I don't see a game we'll be do...
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SENECA Suppose we've chosen the wrong god
SENECA I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
SENECA Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers
SENECA Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
SENECA Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
SENECA Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
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SENECA It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
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SENECA What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
SENECA If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
SENECA Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness
SENECA All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness.
SENECA He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
SENECA He who profits by a crime commits it
SENECA You are your choices.
SENECA Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
SENECA Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
SENECA This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.
SENECA A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
SENECA Every guilty person is his own hangman.
SENECA Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if t...
SENECA A great fortune is a great slavery.
SENECA Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another
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SENECA Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters
SENECA It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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SENECA We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
SENECA He who is brave is free.
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SENECA It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture tha...
SENECA It's not hard to find the truth. What is hard is not to run away from it once you have found it.
SENECA Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow
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SENECA I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and t...
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SENECA Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
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SENECA Time discovers truth.
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SENECA Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.
SENECA While we teach, we learn.
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SENECA To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
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SENECA Abstinence is easier than temperance
SENECA Whom they have injured, they also hate.
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SENECA Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgement.
SENECA It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die
SENECA The best ideas are common property.
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SENECA Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
SENECA Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.
SENECA Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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SENECA It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
SENECA You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
SENECA Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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SENECA Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
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SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
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SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
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SENECA The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
SENECA All cruelty springs from weakness.
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SENECA What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
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SENECA What once were vices are manners now.
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SENECA While we are postponing, life speeds by.
SENECA Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
SENECA Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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SENECA The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
SENECA The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
SENECA The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
SENECA The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
SENECA The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
SENECA The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
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SENECA A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
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SENECA It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
SENECA It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
SENECA It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing.
SENECA He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
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SENECA If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
SENECA Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
SENECA If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
SENECA If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him.
SENECA I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
SENECA I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge.
SENECA He will live ill who does not know how to die well.
SENECA He who spares the wicked injures the good.
SENECA Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
SENECA Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
SENECA Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.
SENECA Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
SENECA Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
SENECA Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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SENECA Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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SENECA As was his language so was his life.
SENECA An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
SENECA All art is an imitation of nature.
SENECA One should count each day a separate life.
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SENECA Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
SENECA Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.
SENECA No one can wear a mask for very long.
SENECA Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
SENECA Life without the courage for death is slavery.
SENECA Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
SENECA Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
SENECA It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
SENECA It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
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SENECA It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
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