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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It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me. Just that you do.
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Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.
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A part of the plan for creating discord, is, I perceive, to make me say things of others, and others of me, wch. have no foundation in truth. The first, in many instances I know to be the case; and the second I believe to be so; but truth or falsehood is immaterial to them, provided their objects are promoted.
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Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
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Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.
