Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.
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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
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The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
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He began to search among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly, incessantly upon his brain; among scents, sounds; voices, harsh, hollow, sweet; and lights passing, and brooms tapping; and the wash and hush of the sea.
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The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.
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O, call back yesterday, bid time return
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I don't do stunts - I do running, jumping and falling down. After 25 years I know exactly what I'm doing.
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Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
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... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person; that he was often carried by force to the baths, and when there he would trace geometrical figures in the ashes of the fire, and with his finger draws lines upon his body when it was anointed with oil, being in a state of great ecstasy and divinely possessed by his science.
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A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.
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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
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The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
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There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.
