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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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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There's no reason why Americans should die when Afghans are perfectly capable of defending their own country.
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I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players.
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I let my summer days pass idly on.
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If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.
