Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
Quotes to Explore
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Air pollution is my biggest concern right now. Maybe because I live in Beijing, and in this city we have such severe challenges due to bad air quality. It has affected our daily lives and health. I do not go outdoors because of it. I desperately hope that we can improve the current situation.
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When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.
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You haven't seen a lot of turnover in my campaign. And the culture of my campaign is one in which I think everybody feels a great sense of ownership.
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Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
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Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head and say "What if I took the world at face value?" and then ask "What can I do with what is given?" it's an interesting trick to turn around the whole problem of how you feel.
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No one's ready for a thing, until they believe that they can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief and not mere hope or wish.
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But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did.
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The day Christina comes out of her grave, that's the day he should get parole.
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Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever.
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Generally, I do not talk about people - family or friends. This is how I am.
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Put an end to so great an evil and arrive at a peace settlement whatever the outcome, and whatever the conditions.
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Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.
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And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.
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It's true in life, as in the movies, that the greatest highs are often followed by the lowest lows.
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The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
