Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
No man was ever wise by chance.
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.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Time discovers truth.
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

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