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 greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
More Seneca Quotes
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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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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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.
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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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You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
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The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
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Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.
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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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We learn not in the school, but in life.
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Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.
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Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
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Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
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He who spares the wicked injures the good.
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