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.
SENECAThe mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
More Seneca Quotes
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We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
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If you don’t know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.
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Regard a friend as loyal, and you will make him loyal.
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich.
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What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
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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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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn
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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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No one can keep a mask on long.
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A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
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Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
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It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
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To be everywhere is to be nowhere.
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No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.
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Find a path or make one.
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