Seneca the Younger Quotes about Spring

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All cruelty springs from weakness.

Spring, Philosophical, Animal

"On the Happy Life". Essay by Seneca the Younger (58 AD); later published in Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners", p. 174 (in the essay "The Sympathetic Temperment"), 1863.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Seneca the Younger

Life, Spring, New Beginnings

Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca the Younger

Powerful, Spring, Rain

Seneca the Younger Quotes about Spring

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