Just as an enemy is more dangerous to a retreating army, so every trouble that fortune brings attacks us all the harder if we yield and turn our backs. (Seneca)

Just as an enemy is more dangerous to a retreating army, so every trouble that fortune brings attacks us all the harder if we yield and turn our backs.

Seneca

Related topics

army enemy fortune harder retreating trouble turn yield

Related quotes

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. View quote
William James
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. View quote
Arthur Ashe
Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals. View quote
David Ogilvy
He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem. View quote
Jules Verne
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. View quote
Cicero