Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.
John Tillotson
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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.
Plato
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The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be made, and those propositions more important, than could be made respecting any other groups into which the same things could be distributed. ... A classification thus formed is properly scientific or philosophical, and is commonly called a Natural, in contradistinction to a Technical or Artificial, classification or arrangement.
John Stuart Mill
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Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
William Shakespeare
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
Salvador Dali
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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
William Blake
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And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.
John Milton
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I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.
William Eggleston
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The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.
George Horace Lorimer
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The scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.
Albert Einstein
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Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.
Socrates
