Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
SENECAYou act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.
More Seneca Quotes
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Regard a friend as loyal, and you will make him loyal.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.
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Find a path or make one.
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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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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
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The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.
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The sun also shines on the wicked.
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What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
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Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
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Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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What’s the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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As was his language so was his life.
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Retire into yourself as much as possible.
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