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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There is a mixture of evil in everything we do; indulgence encourages us to encroach, while we Crabbe exercise the rights of children, we become childish.
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A very interesting and promising cluster has formed here [in the Russian Far East ], and we would be happy if our potential investors, our counterparts from abroad, first of all those from the Asia-Pacific region, knew more about it.
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As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.
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A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
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There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.
