01/14/2026
“Why, then, do you wonder that good men are shaken in order that they may grow strong? No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by, it’s very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley. It is, therefore, to the advantage, even of good men, to the end that they may be unafraid, to live constantly a midst alarms, and to bear with patients that happenings which are ill to him…” -Seneca
