Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.
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As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs.
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Sometimes in the middle of the night, I wake up with a song in my head, and I have to finish it so I can fall back asleep.
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I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.
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I feel like I'm exactly where I should be.
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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted. :(
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Lydgate opened the sort of letter…'My dear husband I very good…I come in flying ship…we be very happy…love.' It was as satisfactory a letter as he had ever received from a woman.
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Even though you were once a goddess, Kalidasa’s heaven was only an illusion.
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And both were young, and one was beautiful.
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I had been asking the universe and God to send me a way for me to help me. Show business has been so wonderful to me, and it came in the form of that. It's just so funny how things come into your life, and if you take a chance on them, it might give you a brand new life.
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The word 'empower' is something that kept coming up in my heart.
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He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart
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I enjoyed the drama of 'One Tree Hill,' and the opportunity to be one of the comedic aspects, initially.
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The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.
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Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself.
