Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.
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Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
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I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.
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I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
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This is the body you've been given - love what you've got.
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When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.
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Power is not given to you. You have to take it.
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Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.
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Nothing of fame or fortune can compensate for the spiritual suffering that one possessing such qualities has to endure.
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The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.
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I had the great fortune to actually become friends with Sam [Fuller] and ultimately collaborate with him on White Dog, which we wrote together.
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... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.
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Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.
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No problem is insoluble, given a big enough plastic bag.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone.
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If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?
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We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
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I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.
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I love a sense of humor, I love intelligence, I love specificity, I love surprises. I'm inspired to get out of bed in the morning and fill my day with good things.
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If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room for dinner.
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That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.
