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.Seneca the Younger
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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.
Pat Robertson -
Think and grow rich.
Napoleon Hill -
Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
Karen McCarthy -
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
Nancy Astor -
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.
Walter Cronkite -
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Randall Terry
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
Laura Wade -
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.
Natalie Cole -
LL Cool J is a huge presence. He is a music mogul. He brings that experience and that life into the room.
Barrett Foa -
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.
Walter Rauschenbusch -
I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.
Samuel Beckett -
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.
Vernon Howard
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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.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Give a smile to everyone you meet (smile with your eyes) - and you’ll smile and receive smiles...
W. Clement Stone -
It is not our policy to suppress success.
Margaret Thatcher -
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.
Andrew Tobias -
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
Pericles -
Parliamentarian rules, the rules of the House, how you get bills referred, really the nuts and bolts that most members don't ever want to know because it's a lot of work. But that's what really makes you successful.
Jimmy Gomez
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Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals.
African Spir -
For years, I longed to hear Armstrong describe what it was like to contemplate Earth from 238,900 miles away. Former Space Center director George Abbey once told me that many NASA astronauts felt that looking at Earth was akin to a religious experience.
Douglas Brinkley -
Chimps cannot tell us anything about peaceful relations, because chimps have only different degrees of hostility between communities. Whereas bonobos do tell us something; they tell us about the possibility of having peaceful relationships.
Frans de Waal -
My favorite thing to do in L.A. is to be in a car with friends listening to music. The perfect time is twilight, when the setting sun is filtering through the palm trees. Back in the day, we'd be listening to the Vandals, X, or Farside. Now it would be L.A.-based bands like Dum Dum Girls, Foxygen, or Ty Segall.
Liz Goldwyn -
They who live without Love are dead. / But the worst of all deaths is this -- / That the loving soul be cowardly toward Love; / For perfect Love is never cowardly, / But claims its rights, which it lacks.
Hadewijch -
Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.
Seneca the Younger