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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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Never explain, never complain.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
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When I start something, I have to finish it, and I'm a super perfectionist, too.
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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?
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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.
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Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.
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So if I think of something in my head I don't have to do it. If I can't do I don't do it, I do something else.
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The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.
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A viable new feminism must directly confront the realm of practice.
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The most fearless hearts, the audacious dreamers, have always maintained a sense of optimism that often flies in the face of the available evidence.
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It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with.
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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.
