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 thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.
More Seneca Quotes
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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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Money has never yet made anyone rich.
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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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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
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To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.
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The sun also shines on the wicked.
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He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
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The 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.
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Regard a friend as loyal, and you will make him loyal.
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After death there is nothing.
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