Quote of the day by Seneca: 'It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult,' and how fear reshapes the obstacles we believe stand before us

Lucius Annaeus Seneca knew more about uncertainty than most philosophers who wrote about courage. Born in Roman Spain around the beginning of the first century AD, he became a statesman, playwright and one of the leading Stoic thinkers of his age, serving as adviser to the emperor Nero before falling from political favour and eventually being ordered to take his own life.

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