Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war
Seneca
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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in
war.
[Lat., Gaudent magni viri r...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) It is remarkable that soldiers by profession, men truly and unquestionably brave, seldom advise war ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
HORACE Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity
SENECA Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.
WILL ROGERS ...men are poor soldiers in love's war. And it is a war-one that never ends.
ANDREA CREMER Triumph in the face of difficulties and adversity
TONY G K JONES A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
CHINESE PROVERBS Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
OG MANDINO The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't wom...
ANNE FRANK No man is a man until he has been a soldier.
LOUIS DE BERNIèRES Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over mora...
OSCAR WILDE History is reticent about women who were common soldiers, who bore arms, belonged to regiments, and ...
STIEG LARSSON Children are rescued from abortion to be killed in war as soldiers.
ILKIN SANTAK Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are to finishing it. You take Diplomac...
WILL ROGERS Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplo...
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JOE SCARBOROUGH Business is war and your past clients and customer’s great online reviews are your elite soldiers ...
TOM KENEMORE American soldiers wore khaki uniforms during World War II. Men's khaki trousers became fashionab...
ROGER STONE In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
JOSE NAROSKY Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Is it not passing brave to be a king, / And ride in triumph through Persepolis?
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ALAN REICH Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity
SENECA In times of war let us remember our soldiers; in times of peace let us remember our soldiers
KEVIN I.E2 GBOBOH It is our triumph, in the face of adversity; that makes us the special beings, that we truly are.
ENRIQUE VEGA Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been l...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Sweeney: I can just see all you tough young soldiers cuddling together.
Richard: Not cuddling, ...
LINDA HOWARD As we trust in God, we shall triumph in any trouble.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Although we face many troubles, we shall triumph,
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gall...
JOHN B. HOOD How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
LAO TZU Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon;
lest the daughters of the Philistine...
BIBLE I'm just saying you should pick a man who knows that he's not worthy of you and who will dedicate hi...
SUSAN EE How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the trut...
CURT WELDON Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of ...
ANNE FRANK In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
H. L. MENCKEN In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
H. L. MENCKEN In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
JOHN GAY Television glorifies war, ... And the reality is we have some remarkably brave men and women who wor...
DAVE PRICE The war in Iraq is immoral, illegal and cruel. Overwhelmingly, Americans, soldiers and Iraqis want A...
DEXTER KAMILEWICZ SUCCESS is for the BRAVE! TRIUMPH awaits to those, that are brave enough to undergo through the tria...
PHILIP T. M. I think that would be great. Just to say they recognize us as well as the soldiers in the past. We s...
ANDY WARD Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
CICERO Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO I don´t know the weapons that will used in the Third Great War, but in the Forth Great War men will...
ALBERT EINSTEIN We are surrounded by adversity but we shall triumph because we have a greater spirit
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA History teachers help children climb mountains.
JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the co...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed ...
JOHN DOOLITTLE I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
BIBLE Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our ow...
ALEJO CARPENTIER There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, ...
ALISTAIR MACLEAN Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing n...
AMIT RAY As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives fo...
DAN LIPINSKI For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
SIRACH For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
GEORGE SANTAYANA War then, is a relation - not between man and man: but between state and state; and individuals are ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU No se vive celebrando victorias, sino superando derrotas.
ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA People become great only in the face of adversity.
DRAGOS BRATASANU Suffering and taking sin upon himself might have been right for that preacher of small people. But I...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fa...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Valor never dies as long as brave souls, willingly give their lives for our freedom. Some may take t...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already ove...
NIGEL HAMILTON Honor our Veterans for the valor and courage of these brave souls in defending this great country, a...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN While I never served in uniform, I fully understand the great service and sacrifice that our brave m...
MARC VEASEY As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men i...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United Stat...
VIRGINIA FOXX Our answer is open war on all Zionists, soldiers and civilians.
ABU QUSAI I have gone to war and now I can issue my complaint. I can sit on my porch and complain all day. And...
ANTHONY SWOFFORD Soldiers encounter the horrors of war, and they are able to record it, ... You mix it with the porn ...
JOE CURTIN The music of hope is everywhere, but to hear it, you need to ignore the muddy jangle of life's hassl...
CHRISTINE M. KNIGHT Brave men are brave from the very first.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Seneca Wallace is a good player. He just hasn't played.
MIKE HOLMGREN Adversity makes men remember God
TITUS LIVY The brave men and women, who serve their country and as a result, live constantly with the war insid...
ROBERT KOGER Sunlight is bad,' he wheezes. 'It's the exact same stuff as breeds maggots in wounded soldiers' legs...
MICHEL FABER However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, C...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER Don't waste good iron for nails or good men for soldiers
CHINESE PROVERBS The essence of adversity is to show us the real brave people who can withstand it.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing...
ARISTOTLE Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by perform...
ARISTOTLE Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performin...
ARISTOTLE All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battl...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE In the battle of Kunu-ri, more than 5,000 American soldiers were killed, wounded or taken as prisone...
CHARLES B. RANGEL My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but ...
OSCAR WILDE Men represent the triumph of mind over morals, whereas women represent the triumph of matter over mi...
DORIAN GRAY Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.
SEBASTIAN JUNGER Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their m...
BIBLE Soldiers and children do as they're told. Children grow out of it, but soldiers just die.
LAINI TAYLOR I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans aren't. They all have di...
EMILY ROBISON This is a political and social triumph as well as a union triumph and shows that our struggle has no...
EVO MORALES I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawlin...
ROALD DAHL Jean's desires, like those of all men in love, were concentrated on the impossible.
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