Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I feel totally French – I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.
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I would love to go on 'MasterChef'. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked.
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I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
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You don't like dealing with somebody who denies horrible things happening to your people or threatens future horrible things to your people.
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In considering found that the papists did not deny him to be come in the flesh, nor we did not deny him-who then was antichrist? Was the Turk antichrist only?
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In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
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I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.
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I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.
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Body and mind, and spirit, all combineTo make the Creature, human and divine.Of this great trinity no part deny.Affirm, affirm, the Great Eternal I.
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If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.
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When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility for a play about two people, and suddenly the officer is finding all manner of exotic contraband like the nature of God and identity, and while he can't deny that they're there, he can't for the life of him remember putting them there. In the end, a play is not the product of an idea; an idea is the product of a play.
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Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds.
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.
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To deny the darkness of the soul is to be but half a human being. But we had both sides.
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I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.
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Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
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Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.
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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
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If you're unhappy, what is it in your life that you're not facing?
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What we called love down there was mostly the craving to be loved. In the main I loved you for my own sake: because I needed you...We shall have no need for one another now: we can begin to love truly.
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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
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There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.
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He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.
