No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.
SENECASpeech is the mirror of the mind.
More Seneca Quotes
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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He who is brave is free.
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Find a path or make one.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
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Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present.
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The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.
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The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
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To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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