Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Those vices luxury and neglect of decent manners are vices of men, not of the times.
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Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.
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There are a few musicians that I know who seem on the outside like very asocial or somewhat unemotional people, people who aren't capable of emotions, and people think they're very cold inside.
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Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.
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The more money you make, the more the culture already attracts you to serve it, with an aura of glitter and power, to reproduce it in even stronger ways. And you have to resist that so much if any meaningful artistic integrity is to be had.
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What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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We shouldn't need riot police at schools.
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Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.
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Sometimes I think too much, or sometimes I don't think enough as the character. Sometimes you just miss a moment, or sometimes you hear something that a character's saying that you haven't heard before and you react differently.
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It is great to be introspective, self analysis can be useful, but only if it results in action.
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A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
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The singular secret of khaddar lies in its saleability in the place of its production and use by the manufacturers themselves.
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And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
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My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
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I don't drink at all. I don't condone any of that. And I'm also underage so everything I do is of course under a microscope because a lot of people are onto me growing up. But I won't mess up. I have a lot of good people around me.
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I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.
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Those vices luxury and neglect of decent manners are vices of men, not of the times.
