It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
From Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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.
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