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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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
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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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I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.
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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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when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.
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Unless the law issues from all of the people, some of the people will feel left out. They will come to feel alienated. They will be angry. And this will not be a cohesive democracy.
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Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.
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We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight! Then we can no longer take them into account in the total which is our personality. But they know of secret paths by which to return to us.
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There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
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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.
