Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
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Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
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I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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I'm obsessed with making lists.
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The work of creation is never without travail
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He will punish all the evil deeds of men, although they have not been prohibited by a prophet, if common sense warns against them, as e.g., injustice and violence. ...it is distinctly added that he who does a good thing without being commanded, receives nevertheless his reward. The same principle is expressed in all the sayings of our Sages.
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My nerves fell apart before I saw the front this time, the decaying corpses and piercing wire; for a while, they made me harmless, locking me up in order to undertake a special diagnosis of whatever military ability I might still have. The nerves, every last fiber, repugnance, repulsion!
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I've been your slave Ever since I've been your babe But before I be your dog I'll see you in your grave.
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Awkwardness gives me great comfort.
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A real mother, who knows the will of God by experience, will prepare her children also to fulfil it. Such a mother will suffer if she sees her child overfed, effeminate, and dressed-up, for she knows that these things will make it difficult for it to fulfil the will of God which she recognizes.
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The less somebody knows and understand himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent. For this reason our scientists are not great.
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We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes — and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.
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I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.
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Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!
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True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell.
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People are so conditioned to take sides that a balanced analysis looks to them like hatred.
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It's weird sometimes to have people not see me or see what I do.
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Home joys are blessed of heaven.
