Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I've only had success when I'm not trying to. It's that weird thing where if you're trying to impress a girl, you're not going to impress her. But if you aren't trying to impress a girl, you'll probably impress her because you're not trying.
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Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.
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When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.
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For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own.
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Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the dust - the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.
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Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They were all very important when we didn't know why the sun moved, why weather changed, why hurricanes occurred, or volcanoes happened. Modern religion is the end trail of modern mythology. But there are people who interpret the Bible literally. Literally! I choose not to believe that's the way. And that's what makes America cool, you know?
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All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
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It does not take much to imagine the humanity of people you don't know.
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I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.
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Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science
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Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.
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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
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Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.
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“Do you deny it?” Grimani persisted. “That you went to Marchese Rinaldo's room to ask him about your notebook?” “Deny it? Only the greatest selfrestraint prevents me from laughing it out of countenance.”
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A troubled countenance oft discloses much.
