Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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Words cut through my skin, tears roll down my chin
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Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.
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Still, the American administration is following blindly the Israeli advisers in your policy, while they are pushing you to more and more disasters.
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Wall Street is at best ambivalent. The size of the accounts is nothing big. How many Wall Street firms do you know that are running after people with $5,000 accounts?
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A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.
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The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by which they must be checked, so that they will fight for slavery as they would for salvation, and will think it not shameful, but a most honorable achievement, to give their life and blood that one man may have a ground for boasting.
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It hurts not the tongue to give fair words.
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The terrible importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
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A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.
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Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.
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When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.
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I'll never be bothered if I don't have a hit because you look at the songs that are hits and they're none of my favourites. Just the fact that we do have fans waiting here, that's exciting enough.
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I've always been into super upbeat, cute, uplifting progressions, but at the same time, I'm also a very dark person. I really like both sides, and I feel like I'm always trying to find some middle ground with music or style or anything that I do.
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History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him.
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This truth remains: Only those you care about can hurt you. You expect more from them-after all, you've given more of yourself to them. The higher the expectations, the greater the fall.
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If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.
