The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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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.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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