Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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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.
Warren Beatty -
I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Yitzhak Rabin -
After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
Namie Amuro -
It should not be the government running the economy.
Quico Canseco -
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.
Harper Lee -
The work of creation is never without travail
T. S. Eliot
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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.
Maimonides -
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!
Otto Dix -
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.
Eleanora Fagan -
Awkwardness gives me great comfort.
Marc Jacobs -
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.
Leo Tolstoy -
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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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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.
Alan Keyes -
At the best of times his face was unreadable. Now his face was a book written in a language long forgotten, in an alphabet unimagined. Silas wrapped the shadows around him like a blanket, and stared after the way the boy had gone, and did not move to follow.
Neil Gaiman -
Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.
Leo Strauss -
I do think that the desire to permanently alter your body is triggered by this easy access to Photoshop on your phone.
Elaine Welteroth -
I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.... I let the Word do its work!
Martin Luther -
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
H. L. Mencken
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I'm getting fat ... as I planned. Luckily, my gut is intentional. I'm actually preparing for a big role. Sure, it's a cinnamon roll.
Jim Gaffigan -
If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
Zoe Saldana -
Home joys are blessed of heaven.
Seneca the Younger