Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
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Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.
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Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.
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Die Klasse, welche die herrschende materielle Macht der Gesellschaft ist, ist zugleich ihre herrschende geistige Macht. Die Klasse, die die Mittel zur materiellen Produktion zu ihrer Verfügung hat, disponiert damit zugleich über die Mittel zur geistigen Produktion.
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It's a dream when some people think that once you give your life to God, all of a sudden things are perfect. That's not the case. We live in a world that's broken, where there's disease, where people are selfish. The foundation of your faith helps you know how to put that in proper perspective.
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One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread.
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To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.
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God is the Creator; Satan is the counterfeiter.
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You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes.
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Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
