Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
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The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
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Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.
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There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.
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Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.
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My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
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The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
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All records are not made to be broken.
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Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.
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Nam divitiarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis est, virtus clara aeternaque habetur.
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Luxury, that baneful poison, has unstrung and enfeebled her sons.
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Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can’t think of it.
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Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots
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L'accent est l'âme du discours.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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I spent a lot of time in college studying theater of the absurd and Beckett and Genet, and then I spent a lot of time after that at 'Gossip Girl' auditions, thinking, 'Wow, I really wasted my money.'
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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[Aristotle formal logic thus far (1787)] has not been able to advance a single step, and hence is to all appearances closed and completed.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
