Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
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If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.
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After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.
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For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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Being in love is the best thing in my life.
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I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.
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I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician.
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A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is. It is a vehicle of truth, but it is not a blueprint, and we tend to confuse the two.
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Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition.
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I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
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A man’s body and the needs of his body are now everywhere treated with a tender indulgence. Is the thinking mind then, to be the only thing that is never to obtain the slightest measure of consideration or protection, to say nothing of respect?
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Rich is not better.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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I'm not desperate anymore or feeling weird about myself because I'm not working in this business. I'm older and wiser, and there's a lot more to life.
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I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.
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He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.
