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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The travel, the amazing work I have had the chance to do, the meetings with different people are all very inspiring and give me lots of positive energy.
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Necessity knows no rules.
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The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.
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We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.
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Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
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There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want just any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.
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Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.
