Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
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I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.
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For a woman to say she has had a dalliance with another woman is quite trendy these days. I do not like trendiness. Life isn't about dalliances - it's about individuals. You come across people in your life that you find very interesting. It's not about something flighty.
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I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don't have many dreams for adults because, historically, people have always died much younger than they do today.
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When Pope Francis touched down on French soil for the first time in his papacy with a visit to the European Parliament in Strasbourg last November, Ms. Royal was the senior French official there to greet him.
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I actually love Twitter and Instagram. I do think it's so strange to think that 20 years ago, people would never have known personal stuff about musicians and actors, but I like it. As long as I don't obsessively overshare, it's OK. And when I do overshare, it's just, like, me saying, 'I've got $7 in my bank account!'
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It could have been worse. I could have been born black.
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Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.
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God has pity on kindergarten children.
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My idea of forgiveness is letting go of resentment that does not serve your better interest, ridding yourself of negative thoughts. All they do is make you miserable. Believe me, you can fret and fume all you want, but whoever it was that wronged you is not suffering from your anguish whatsoever.
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We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
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He who searches for Divine Reality with all his heart and soul and finds it, becomes aware that, before he began to seek God, God was seeking him, in order to draw him into the joy of fellowship with Him, into the peace of His Presence.
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The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.
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God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
