Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
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I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.
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I've got to win every race.
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After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.
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So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
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I believe that God wants us to show respect.
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Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful that we begin to see a turnaround in this childhood obesity epidemic.
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As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are.
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The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.
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I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out.
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What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.
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It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.'
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For a startup to overcome obstacles and succeed, it must foster limitless thinking. By hiring students into their first career job, you get to set their framework for how a company functions and instill them with your values for your company's culture.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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I'm into a casual-dressing girl: blue jeans and a tank top is super sexy. But the sexiest thing on a girl - when I see it I'm like, oh my God - is these little tight boxers. Don't get me wrong, g-strings are fine, but those cover a little, to where it's just enough.
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Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can.
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I wouldn't say that I've mellowed. I'm less mellow, perhaps.
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The packaged food business environment is very Darwinian. You're fighting for survival every year; you evolve and grow or you die. It's really that simple.
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The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.
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The brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life at times a questionable good even to him who has not recognised this character of constant anaihilation in the whole of life.
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You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.
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A kiss may ruin a human life.
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What I’m saying is, if God wanted to send us a message, and ancient writings were the only way he could think of doing it, he could have done a better job.
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As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves
