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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

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"Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell."

"In war there is no prize for runner-up."

"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory."

"War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul."

"All cruelty springs from weakness."

"I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives"

"Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute."

"I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair."

"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."

"The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!"

"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk."

"We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."

"He that does good to another does good also to himself."

"He who is brave is free."

"Where fear is, happiness is not."

"Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today."

"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."

"Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart."

"The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances."

"A great fortune is a great slavery."

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