Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.
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We should have more invention.
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Our duty is to be patient.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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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 men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.
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You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young.
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The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.
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All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.
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I think Dan [Rather] is transparently liberal. Now he may not like to hear me say that. I always agree with him, too. But I think he should be more careful.
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In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.
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Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
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Circumstances should never alter principles!
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Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.
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It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.
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The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
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To be fair, I’m sure there were times when I was obnoxious. But that’s rock’n’roll, you know?
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.
