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.
SENECABegin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
More Seneca Quotes
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
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He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
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He who is brave is free.
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Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms – you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.
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Regard a friend as loyal, and you will make him loyal.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Money has never yet made anyone rich.
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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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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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