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Seneca quotes on courage

2 verified English passages where Seneca’ s thought meets questions of courage.

Seneca on courage

Seneca (c. 4 BCE–65 CE) approaches courage within Stoicism. He treats philosophy as therapy for destructive passions and urges daily preparation for mortality and loss. Systematically, the teaching links ethics, anger, mortality into a practical and theoretical whole. On this page, the archive isolates English passages where that project meets courage most directly—useful for searches such as “seneca quotes on courage.”

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  1. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
    Q0027
    Letters to Lucilius, Ep. 104.26
  2. He who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.