The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREpicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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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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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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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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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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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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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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