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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Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
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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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Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.
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The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.
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A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
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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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Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
