“Valor withers without adversity.”
De Providentia (On Providence), 2.4
Moral Essays
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Marcet sine adversario virtus.
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Seneca the Younger 225
Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist -4–65 BCRelated quotes
“Discretion is the better part of valor.”
Reported in Paul Froelich, Die Russische Revolution (1940)
“The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.”
“Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.”
Attributed
“It is above all the valorizing of the present that requires emphasizing.”
As quoted in Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade (2002) by Douglas Allen, p. 90.
Context: It is above all the valorizing of the present that requires emphasizing. The simple fact of existing, of living in time, can comprise a religious dimension. This dimension is not always obvious, since sacrality is in a sense camouflaged in the immediate, in the "natural" and the everyday. The joy of life discovered by the Greeks is not a profane type of enjoyment: it reveals the bliss of existing, of sharing — even fugitively — in the spontaneity of life and the majesty of the world. Like so many others before and after them, the Greeks learned that the surest way to escape from time is to exploit the wealth, at first sight impossible to suspect, of the lived instant.
“There was no man more valorous and courageous than Robert E. Lee.”
"Sanctuary City Mayor Trashes An AMERICAN Hero, Robert E. Lee https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/sanctuary-city-mayor-trashes-an-american-hero-robert-e-lee/," The Abbeville Institute, May 25, 2017
2010s, 2017
“Maidens withering on the stalk.”
Personal Talk, Stanza 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)