Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.
Quotes to Explore
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
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I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.
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The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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There was only one thing of which he could be certain now. Boredom would not be a serious problem for a considerable time to come.
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I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it genuinely is, but I also do appreciate much more than a rosy scenario, I appreciate straight news. I appreciate honesty.
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The word 'carer' makes me think of someone with a nylon overall and a long list of 'clients' to wash before she finishes her shift. A companion was something unique. A kind of live-in friend.
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I was really active as a kid. I was outdoors constantly.
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It is time to fill the world with strong and powerful deeds. It is common knowledge that no great captain in the world has ever destroyed all of his enemies and lived with a sense of satisfaction. If one enemy is killed, two more will appear. It is important we cultivate love and compassion to all the sentient beings which is the way to bring peace to all.
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The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, 'divine.'
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My mother and grandmother both had beautiful skin.
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We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
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Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.
