Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
Quotes to Explore
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My father is an amazing person.
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We have proclaimed to the world our determination 'to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.' We have appealed to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and in Heaven we have placed our trust.
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Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
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Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is
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People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.
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For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.
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There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.
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Neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth – that's the way home. Neither vodka nor bread just bursts of rage just more new graves – that's youth and that's love. Neither sleep nor waking neither joy nor laughter just tears in the night – so the rope, paper, knife.
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I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
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Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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There's not a man in here that doesn't realize that Johnny makes us go. He's the catalyst.
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In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.
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In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil spirits.
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Teaching yoga is the only thing I can do. I can't imagine not doing it. I love it because I believe in it.
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[W]e, being who and what we are, cannot know unless we are taught by that which is other than we, and that means by the Spirit of God, albeit in diverse mediations. Though nature is relatively passive under our enquiry… it remains true that knowledge of her comes as fit, and is therefore a species of revelation…. If there is revelation of the truth of the world, it is because the Spirit of truth enables it to take place. To put it another way, the creator Spirit brings it about that human rationality is able, within the limits set to it, to encompass the truth of creation. We therefore neither control nor create our knowledge, even though the concepts by which we express it are in part the free creations of our minds. Does it not then follow that all knowledge depends on disclosure or revelation?
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
