Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you.
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Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
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On my actual 16th birthday, on the actual day, I went home and I had chicken korma and Peshwari naan bread and pilau rice, and that was fantastic.
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In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.
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I like to stretch my acting muscles.
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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.
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The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the master of deception who wears many disguises and has many aliases.
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Harry can paint but I can't. He has our father's talent while I, on the other hand, am about the biggest idiot on a piece of canvas. I did do a couple of drawings at Eton which were put on display. Teachers thought they were examples of modern art, but in fact, I was just trying to paint a house!
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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
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The euro is under pressure already today and this is adding to its problems.
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The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.
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If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today; if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the one or the two.
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Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth.
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Someone once told me that children are like heroin. You always want more. Yet first-borns are special because you'll never have your first child again.
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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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So Newton, like all good seventeenth-century intellectuals, wrote in Latin because that was the international language of science, philosophy and, I found out later, upmarket pornography.
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Some investments do have higher expected returns than others. Which ones? Well, by and large they're the ones that will do the worst in bad times.
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If you love someone – deeply, in as true a way as you can – you will get hurt. People leave us and love falls apart, and when it does, it hurts. It should hurt. How can you not hurt when what you love is gone?
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The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you.
