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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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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One should always be a little improbable.
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There is no such thing as failure in love. Relationships end, but they don’t fail. Love is only a failure when you don’t learn and you don’t try.
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A compromise is done willingly and out of love. You don't go away thinking, "I betrayed myself."
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The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.
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It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.
