Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?
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The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.
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No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
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Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!
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I read that my lifelong dream is to serve as speaker with Hillary Clinton as president. So what?
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I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.
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The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.
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The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.
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Let optimists rule the world.
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I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build a state that is-regardless of how unscientific this may sound to the ears of a political scientist-humane, moral, intellectual and spiritual, and cultural.
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Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve.
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I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
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A man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.
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To the extent to which we believe in this world, we are heir to the laws which rule this place.
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He who serves our Führer, Adolf Hitler, serves Germany, and he who serves Germany, serves God.
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Your honors here may serve you for a time, as it were for an hour, but they will be of no use to you beyond this world. Nobody will have heard a word of your honors in the other life. Your glory, your shame, your ambitions, and all the treasures for which you push hard and sacrifice much will be like wreaths of smoke. For these things, which you mostly seek, and for which you spend your life only tarry with you while you are on this side of the flood.
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
