Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?
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I am told by others that I have a lateral-thinking, broad approach to problems, sometimes to my detriment. In school, my grades always suffered because I was continually mucking about with irrelevant side issues, which I often found to be more interesting.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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Strong ties with a particular place, the fact that something flourishes there and has a special smell or taste - all this is being lost.
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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Once a maggot, always a maggot.
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Alex has got toughness about him. It's just that you spend so much time trying to find out what other people want, as opposed to doing what you got to do. You're trying to please everybody and do what everybody expects you to do. And the thing is, they ain't under the same gun.
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The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
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Tracy looks like he's injured to me. He just didn't seem to play with as much vigor.
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In China, especially in the cities, if someone fainted on the streets, or if someone was knocked over by a car, you'll find lots of gawkers and gloaters, but rarely will you find someone willing to extend a helping hand.
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The only thing they recognize is a buffet.
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So, according to the religious, you can only be good if you're scared of the consequences of being bad? Strange, I thought people were good because they care about each other?
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The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.
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I just got an apartment here in Nashville, and I invested in a Queen-sized bed because I'm like, "I haven't had a big bed since I was a kid." I woke up this morning on one side, like, in "coffin position."
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What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?
