Let me just add one more Seneca (weaker) parallel:Words should be scattered like seed; no matter how small the seed may be, if it once has found favorable ground, it unfolds its strength and from an insignificant thing spreads to its greatest growth.
Seneca, Epistles 38:2
Seeds of divinity are scattered in human bodies: if a good gardener takes them in hand, the seedlings resemble their source and grow up equal to the parent plant. But poor cultivation, like sterile or boggy soil, kills the plants and produces only a crop of weeds.
Seneca, Epistles 73:16 (translation Graver & Long, 2015)
Seneca, Epistles 73:16 (translation Graver & Long, 2015)
Statistics: Posted by AdamKvanta — Wed Jan 08, 2025 10:54 am