Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.
Seneca the Younger
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
Fleur East
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God invented love, and it is therefore perfect, and dogs are better at celebrating this perfection than we are. When in doubt as to how we should feel, we could do far worse than trying to live life like the dogs.
W. Bruce Cameron
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
Edmund Burke
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
Action Bronson
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I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.
Rand Paul
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I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.
Larry David
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I take it a little bit hard on myself because I'm comparing myself a lot, and that's the kind of person I am because I'm so competitive, but it's also good, because I am competitive, so it kind of kicks you in the butt.
Nastia Liukin
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Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.
Tammy Bruce
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It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they possess, that no one would believe it without having seen it. Of anything they have, if you ask them for it, they never say no; rather they invite the person to share it, and show as much love as if they were giving their hearts.
Christopher Columbus
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Nothing happens to anyone that he can't endure. (Hays translation)
Marcus Aurelius
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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
Aristotle
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I'm recognizable in certain circles, like girls know me, couples know me. But not all straight men know me.
Patti Stanger
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My skin is 24 karat gold when a sun hit it.
Kevin Gates
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You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you find your great-great-grandfather in 1870 and it says he's 50, that means he was born in 1820 and you're back to 1820 already. For an American that's pretty damned good, you know?
Henry Louis Gates
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It was seriously just a name. They didn’t tell you what to do. They didn’t tell you how they wanted the character to be - nothing. You went in to audition for this character name and that was it. When I started, before I came onto the set, I went to Gene Roddenberry and said: hey, what do you want from this guy? Who is he? And being as smart as he is, he said: don’t listen to what you’ve heard or read or seen in the past, nothing. Just make the character your own. And that’s what I did.
Michael Dorn
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
Randy Wayne
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Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.
Seneca the Younger
