Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.
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I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.
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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me. So a lot of what 'Rookie' is about is just showing that you can be both, and you can like whatever you want.
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Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
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If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
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You don't make any money sitting in traffic.
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The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.
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If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
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Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.
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I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.
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The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.
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I'm terrified by young people who are doing what they think is film making. What they're really doing is taking that convulsed, fast rhythm of commercials. It's not film making.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.
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You work hard, and you'll rise. But, if you've got any foolish notions, just knock them on the head and forget them.
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Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
