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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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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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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The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.
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'Hannah Montana' gets no disrespect from me because it's certainly done me a lot of favors.
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It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
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I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.
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When I turned 16 and got my license, the Chevy Blazer was passed down from my sister, so it was very much a starter car.
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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.
