Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.
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I think every teenager goes through their angst. People who are like, 'No, I had a perfect adolescence,' make me wonder how that is possible.
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There's a reason I'm known - to bring people to Allah, to God.
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A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
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Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.
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If your feet are firmly planted on the grount you'll never be able to dance.
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I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.
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They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.
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For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.
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I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them.
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Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?
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I think we women underrate ourselves when it comes to our courage and strength.
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Truth here makes Falsehood torment lying tongues.
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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.
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From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.
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Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.
