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.
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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 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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Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action.
Aristotle
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
Seneca the Younger
