Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
Quotes to Explore
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At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.
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Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.
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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.
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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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And then, one by one, they came onto the screen late in the day to pontificate about how we were going into a moral sewer. How this image of a breast at a family halftime show was not only disgusting, it was disturbing, it was shocking, it was indecent. I thought 'Uh, it's just a tit. And none of those adjectives really fucking apply.'
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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
