To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
Seneca the YoungerNature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.
Seneca the YoungerThere in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.
Seneca the Younger