Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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Think and grow rich.
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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
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Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
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LL Cool J is a huge presence. He is a music mogul. He brings that experience and that life into the room.
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To the more judicial and scientific temper of our day their invective would seem overdrawn and their sympathy would seem partisanship. In Jeremiah and in the prophetic psalms the poor as a class are made identical with the meek and godly, and 'rich' and 'wicked' are almost synonymous terms.
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I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.
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If we choose the easy way, by letting another think for us, we must eventually tread the hard way. If we select the hard way, by insisting upon our own mental integrity, we eventually come to the easy way.
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I am a little shy of any assumption of moral indignation. There is always in it an element of self-satisfaction which makes it awkward to anyone who has a sense of humour.
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Give a smile to everyone you meet (smile with your eyes) - and you’ll smile and receive smiles...
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It is not our policy to suppress success.
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Not surprisingly, the insurance lobby recoils in horror at the prospect of automatic coverage ( including, when it was first proposed, Social Security), no matter how efficient it may be. Automatic coverage eliminates sales commissions and profit.
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Come away; poverty's catching.
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Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.
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I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life.
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Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down You had not seen take amber light alive.
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Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.
