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.
SENECAIf thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
More Seneca Quotes
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We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
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There is no genius without a touch of madness.
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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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To be everywhere is to be nowhere.
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
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No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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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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You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.
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