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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If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
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The history of man proves that religion perverts man's concept of life and the universe, and has made him a cringing coward before the blind forces of nature.
Joseph Lewis
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We may treat of the Soul as in the body - whether it be set above it or actually within it - since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation, from the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body's experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
Plotinus
