Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

Seneca the Younger

• Modesty
• Acquire
• Preserve

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• A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.

  

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• Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.

  

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• The last time I twerked I was with @katyperry. She was rather good at it!

  

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• A human best, which is very little. Its hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though the world might last a hundred years.

  

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• Cancer is always funny.

  

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• When you're young, you tend to believe what people tell you, and that's dangerous. As you get older, you learn that you're never as good or as bad as they say you are. If you understand this, you win.

  

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• If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some readers will be scared off by dryness. But isn't it necessary to scare off some if in their case the matter would end up in bad hands?

  

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• The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens.

  

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• Don't second guess the mistakes you've made, others will do that for you.

  

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• We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so that the world we recognize officially in literature and in society is a poetic fiction far handsomer, cleaner and better than the world that really is.

  

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• All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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• In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse.

  

  Randy Alcorn
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• Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and the way it preserves itself is to keep you from having any doubts, and the way it keeps you from doubting is to blind you to the way things really are. Evidence contrary to the belief can be staring you straight in the face, and you won't see it... True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.

  

  Philip Caputo
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• You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Modesty
  • Acquire
  • Preserve