Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.
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The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good years.
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I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.
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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
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For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.
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When a man puts me a question, I judge of his intelligence.
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In my small town, nothing really good happened too often and I thought, 'What am I doing here? I'm wasting my life.'
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There are periods where you think, "What am I doing?" or "What am I doing it for?"; that's a more scary question. "I've made s---loads of money, I've left my mark in music, why am I still doing this?," and it takes a while to answer that question.
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Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.
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The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby men register their Thoughts; recall them when they are past; and also declare them one to another for mutuall utility and conversation; without which, there had been amongst men, neither Commonwealth, nor Society, nor Contract, nor Peace, no more than amongst Lyons, Bears, and Wolves.
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If you want everything, you first have to give everything up.
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I lost the accent years ago, but I'm still very proud to be Scottish, and I love wearing a kilt.
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90? 110? You know. It's a Ferrari, baby - you don't do 50 in a Ferrari.
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I have invariably been in love when I haven't had the same reciprocated emotion at all. I don't choose to talk about my personal life because I believe that I don't want to, and I believe my personal life is personal.
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I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.
