Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
H. Rap Brown
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.
Naftali Bennett
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Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
Francesco Guicciardini
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Never explain, never complain.
Wallis Simpson
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If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
Warren Buffett
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I've always had bad posture, and Pilates makes me feel taller and reminds me to keep my shoulders back. And hiking isn't just about doing cardio, it's also when I can get my 'me time' to be alone with my thoughts. After Pilates I should do some cardio, and after hiking, I need to do some resistance training.
Mandy Moore
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There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.
Fiona Apple
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
Walter Benjamin
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An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.
Indira Varma
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There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself. Keep your hands to yourself, Bill. Hillary, mind your own business.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The Sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
Walter Scott
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When I start something, I have to finish it, and I'm a super perfectionist, too.
Kali Uchis
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But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?
Jim Wallis
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Martha Graham
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Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.
Christopher Reeve
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Have you ever thought of yourself as a junior angel crowned with glory and honor? Every one of our Father in Heaven's children is great in His sight. If the Lord sees greatness in you, how then should you see yourself?
L. Tom Perry
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The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.
William Hazlitt
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To me, one of the most beautiful things to see is a group of men coordinating their efforts toward a common goal, alternately subordinating and asserting themselves to achieve real teamwork in action. I tried to do that, we all tried to do that, on the Celtics. I think we succeeded.
Bill Russell
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
Blaise Pascal
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.
Seneca the Younger