The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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