Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
Seneca the Younger
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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.
C. S. Lewis
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Cancer is always funny.
Jim Gaffigan
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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.
George Clooney
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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?
Immanuel Kant
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The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Don't second guess the mistakes you've made, others will do that for you.
Albert Einstein
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In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price. You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.
Ellis Peters
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[I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid or merely because he lacks the instruments of violence, he is not truly nonviolent. This is why Gandhi often said that if cowardice is the only alternative to violence, it is better to fight.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I really just love to read, period, whether it be books or magazines or the back of the cereal box. It's the one thing I can always count on to calm me down, take me away and inspire me, all at once.
Sarah Dessen
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I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
Wayne Dyer
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I am full of optimism. The world hasn't beaten it out of me yet. And I'm going to work very hard to make sure that they don't.
Jordan Gavaris
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
Seneca the Younger
