Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.
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He who hesitates is a damned fool.
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You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.
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I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.
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Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.
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My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly! You didn't know it then-you know it now.
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A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.
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i claim that many patterns of nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with euclid - a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry - nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... the existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous."
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If I could have done anything more, it would have been less.
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At another location, we found barrels of chemical material that was intended for use as biochemical weapons. Everyone talks about there being no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but they seem to be referring to completed nuclear bombs, not the many deadly chemical weapons or precursors that Saddam had stockpiled.
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You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.
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A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon.
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The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.
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Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion -- it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.
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There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.
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St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving the Creator for the sake of the creature. What punishment would that subject deserve who, while his king was giving him a command, contemptuously turned his back upon him to go and transgress his orders? This is what the sinner does; and this is punished in hell with the pain of loss, that is, the loss of God, a punishment richly deserved by him who in this life turns his back upon his sovereign good.
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I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.
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Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.
