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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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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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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In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.
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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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The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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A turtleneck is about sophistication.
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You have to approach every day and try and get better on and off the field.
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Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
