Doubtful Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “The fortune of war is always doubtful.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doubtful Fortune War Wealth
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem doubtful that… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
It is doubtful if even experience of riches and success is as intense among those who have experienced nothing else as among those who… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
The first men who set out for Mars had better make sure they leave everything at home in apple-pie order. They won't get back… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
