Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Quote by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
- Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
- The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
- Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
- A great fortune is a great slavery.
- The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
- 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.
- The wish for healing has always been half of health.
- There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
- 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.
- Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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- Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
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- Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
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