Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
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Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.
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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.
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Each person can make their difference.
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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
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If your environment is not to your liking, change it!
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The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.
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It is the greatest game that I've ever been around. It'll continue to get better and be the greatest.
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No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.
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I love my people and I don't hate nobody and it keeps me out of trouble.
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To women silence gives their proper grace.
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But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.
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If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.
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A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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It is commonly said that covetousness is one of the reigning sins of old age. How strange that it should be so! Especially considering what they have seen, and known, and it may be, felt of the emptiness and uncertainty of riches. They have witnessed how often they make themselves wings. What! And not yet convinced! What! Almost at the end of thy journey, and yet loading thyself with thick clay! Think of the time of day. It is almost night; even sun-set. And art thou unmindful of the grave? The body is bending downwards, let the heart be upwards.
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I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.
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Self-denial is the best riches.
