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 is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.
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All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.
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All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.
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She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn.
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The bird Gamayun was related to Alkonost and Sirin in some vague fashion-even the most casual observer would've noticed that all three of them were not entirely birds; they had the faces and breasts of women, severe but beautiful. And when their lips opened, they sand in women's voices, deep and rich and bittersweet.
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Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.
