Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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There's almost nothing you can't do with a cashew. Not only does it lend its nutty sweetness to savory dishes, it also gives desserts a deep richness.
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Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.'
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You don't have to find out you're dying to start living.
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One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.
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No matter how bad things are, they could always be worse. Start finding gratitude for what might have happened, but didn't.
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The more alive we feel, the more we can contribute to the lives of others.
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I wonder if they ever are. I thought they might let that go this year, but it didn't seem apparent at all. Right away, he got booed. He just may be one of those guys that has to carry that for a year or two until another group comes along that gives him a break.
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An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.
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The Voice Chamber hatches a new and healthy experience of the vibrational universe
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I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.
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Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.
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First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.
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What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!
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Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.
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Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path. . .
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Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure.
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I feel like we want to compartmentalise things and say, 'Well, that's emotional, artistic and subjective, while this is intellectual, objective and measured.' I have difficulty thinking that's the way we experience things.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
