Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.
Quotes to Explore
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!
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If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.
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I've suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.
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Recipes can be incredibly vague where chillies are concerned.
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Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.
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As a symbol of love it does not quite work for her, since its overwhelming beauty demands a passive response that is irritating to the adventurous.
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Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
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His (Deschamps’) complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was composed of hypocrisy, flattery, lying, paying and betraying; it was where calumny and cupidity reigned, common sense lacked, truth dared not appear, and where to survive one had to be deaf, blind, and dumb.
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Fair Elphin, dry your cheeks! Such sorrow does not become you, Although you consider yourself cheated Excessive sorrow gains nothing, Nor will doubting God's miracles.
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Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.
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From childhood I have been afraid of mummers. It always seemed an extra shadow without face or name had slipped among them...
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We, as communities that are marginalized, need to open up our minds and realize that we should be asking and advocating for more of everyone. Let's get more gay black men; let's get more trans women.
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The world is less homophobic, depending on where you are in the world... As a gay man I feel very strongly about those issues around the world - there've been huge changes and developments, but there are still places where things are scary.
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The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.
