Speech is the mirror of the mind.
SENECANo 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.
More Seneca Quotes
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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We learn not in the school, but in life.
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
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He who spares the wicked injures the good.
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Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
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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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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.
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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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Life is long, if you know how to use it.
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As was his language so was his life.
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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
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