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.
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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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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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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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If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.
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Because school was so terrible was probably why I was driven to write.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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Some people are antagonized by the truth.
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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.
