Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.
Quotes to Explore
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There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.
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By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I'm worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.
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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
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Dominican Republic is, is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, etcetera.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.
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I can fall in love in a simple way, but I can dissect it in such an intense fashion when it ends.
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It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.
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I don't want to end up losing my soul.
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In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.
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When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.
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Malcolm X had a habit of scribbling notes in small pieces of paper that [Alex] Haley would surreptitiously pick up at the end of their discussions.
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In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
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The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe.
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Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, "You will never get the girl at the end." So I worked on my acting.
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The Lord Jesus is "a friend who never changes." There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.
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To be wealthy you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial independence.
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We can lose so much of what we've gained in terms of the kind of democratic freedoms and market-based economies and prosperity that we've come to take for granted.
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Prosperity isn't something that squirts out of rich people.
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The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge of his work. It never says "yes" to a theory. In the most favorable cases it says "Maybe," and in the great majority of cases simply "No." If an experiment agrees with a theory it means for the latter "Maybe," and if it does not agree it means "No." Probably every theory will some day experience its "No" - most theories, soon after conception.
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A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.
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Shoji Hamada seldom drew an exact drawing of a pot that he was going to make.
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A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.
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When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.
