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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.

Seneca the Younger

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Despise Hate Hateful
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Light might People
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Mind Peace
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fall Wisdom
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

God Turn Void Work
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Brave Men
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Invites Refusal Request
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Add Another Day Time
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Continue Dream Indulge Men
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Causes Grieve Sorrow
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Success Wisdom
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Law Name Successful
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

End Inspirational Way
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Son Success
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Medicine Men Search Sick
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Assuming Honor Men Prompt
If you wish to be loved, love.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Life Love People Person
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Successful Temerity Virtue
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Affection Coal Squares
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Emotion Matter More Person
Luck never made a man wise.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Wisdom Wise
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Relaxation Stronger
Whatever begins, also ends.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Begin Close End Time
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Lying Money Political

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