Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.
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Great men marry great women.
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Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.
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I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
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Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
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The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.
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In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.
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If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.
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I know it sounds old-fashioned, but I like the idea of women taking care of their men.
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As intense as our work is, I try my hardest to live my life so that people in my office feel they can work at 'Frontline' and be parents if they choose to. This goes for the men as well.
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Men don't hear women.
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Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.
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I like the company of men. I've never been welcome in those groups, but then I would no more go to a consciousness-raising group and talk about my intimate life with my husband than fly to the moon. I never understood all that.
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Men aren't able to retire and are going bankrupt making alimony payments.
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The ocean twitched like a vast cloth spread over snakes.
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The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly.
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Every day, I feel different. Sometimes I don't put on any makeup, and other times, I put on a ton.
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I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to "play polo" with him; i.e., not to go at him bald-headed but to ride side by side with him and gradually edge him off your track. Never lose your temper with him. If you are in the right there is no need to, if you are in the wrong you can't afford to.
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Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.
