Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
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My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
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People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him.
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In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
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Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
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How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?
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Happiest time of youth and life, when love is first spoken and returned; when the dearest eyes are daily shining welcome, and the fondest lips never tire of whispering their sweet secrets; when the parting look that accompanies "Good night!" gives delightful warning of tomorrow.
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The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
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If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.
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A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.
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I always begin to compose the melody first.
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True contentment comes with empathy.
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O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!
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The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
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I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.
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As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide.
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This is one of the hard-and-fast ironies of the Christian tradition: views that at one time were the majority opinion, or at least that were widely seen as completely acceptable, eventually came to be left behind; and as theology moved forward to become increasingly nuanced and sophisticated, these earlier majority opinions came to be condemned as heresies.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
