Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.Seneca the Younger
Quotes to Explore
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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
Edmund Burke -
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
Truth-tellers who expect others to believe them tend to speak naturally and un-self-consciously. But if they don't expect to be believed, they may try too hard to seem honest. Unfortunately, the result makes them sound less believable. Obviously, then, not every oddly phrased statement is a lie.
Pamela Meyer -
Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
Ted Nugent -
My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
Dan Quayle -
Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
E. M. Forster
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It is in their inherent moral components that recent Western strategies may be deficient. What percentage of the populations in countries engaged in the 14-year effort in Afghanistan could even name the three main Taliban groups with whom their soldiers have been engaged?
H. R. McMaster -
Though the demonetisation move should be welcomed, govt should have planned well in advance to ensure that no common man suffer.
Vijay -
If the Reddit community cannot learn to balance authenticity and compassion, it may be a great website, but it will never be a truly great community.
Sam Altman -
As soon as a handful of scientists come up with an intervention shown to influence aging in other species, they begin selling it as an intervention for humans, even though there may not be evidence it works.
S. Jay Olshansky -
I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious - but it's to breathe the character and get into the psychology of it.
Imogen Poots -
Men, you may all do as you damn please, but I'm a-goin' home.
Nathan Bedford Forrest
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Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.
Barack Obama -
Wittgenstein's ruler: 'Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.' (page 224)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Among many morals which press upon us from the poor minister's miserable experience, we put only this into a sentence: - 'Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!'
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Lord Byron -
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
James Whistler -
I know this may come as a shock to most of you, but I've decided to quit acting. I will not be auditioning for anything anymore, and if I get offered something like a role in a movie or a commercial or something, I will graciously turn it down. It's been great, but its just not for me anymore.
Chris Pratt
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The Lord compensates the faithful for every loss. That which is taken away from those who love the Lord will be added unto them in his own way. While it may not come at the time we desire, the faithful will know that every tear today will eventually be returned a hundredfold with tears of rejoicing and gratitude.
Joseph B. Wirthlin -
I love the way ravens fly; they are the most acrobatic and daring birds.
Philip Pullman -
I'm really interested in how people feel out new friendships, and at the start of college, that's really important.
John Allison -
I have competed with a friend over a guy, but I was always the one who would give in. It's not worth it to fight with a friend over a guy.
Meaghan Jette Martin -
What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
Seneca the Younger