Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.

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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.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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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.

  

  Ed Balls
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• I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.

  

  Sam Kinison
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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.

  

  Barack Obama
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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?

  

  Anna Hutchison
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• In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

  

  Anne Baxter
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• I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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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.

  

  Courteney Cox
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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.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Great
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• If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.

  

  Richard Holbrooke
  • Country
  • Victim
  • Greater

• 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.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • People
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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.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
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• There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Deny
  • Shake
  • Pagan

• But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Men
  • Constitution
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• To deny the darkness of the soul is to be but half a human being. But we had both sides.

  

  Ray Manzarek The Doors
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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.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
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• Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Deny
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  • Affirm

• 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.

  

  Albert Camus
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• Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it to others if ever he should be in a position to grant it.

  

  Carl Joachim Friedrich
  • Position
  • Tolerance
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• All the best art and music feels like some type of truth - even if it's really simple - that you just can't deny. A listener can feel that.

  

  Lauv
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  • Truth
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• In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin and guide of its contours and gradients and of all the lives - the plants and small creatures, and the culture - that evolved here. That was always here to be seen, of course, and the recognition has forced itself, in one form or other, upon people in every part of the world who have been directly involved with the growing of living things. The gardener who ignores it is soon left with no garden.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • People
  • Time
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• In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.

  

  Adyashanti
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• He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Deny
  • Doubtful