Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
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Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.
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It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.
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The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God. This is the God of Providence, who protects, disposes, rewards, and punishes; the God who, according to the limits of the believer's outlook, loves and cherishes the life of the tribe or of the human race, or even of life itself; the comforter in sorrow and unsatisfied longing; he who preserves the souls of the dead. This is the social or moral conception of God.
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When came the invasion of privacy.That kind of thing turns the newspaper from a friendly organ - not necessarily appeasing everybody - into the enemy. It's one reason why newspapers have suffered circulation falls.
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Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.
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See?" Fezzik pointed then. Far down, at the very bottom of the mountain path, the man in black could be seen running. "Inigo is beaten." Inconceivable!" exploded the Sicilian. Fezzik never dared disagree with the hunchback. "I'm so stupid," Fezzik nodded. "Inigo has not lost to the man in black, he has defeated him. And to prove it he has put on all the man in black's clothes and masks and hoods and boots and gained eighty pounds.
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A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass.
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If the situation presents itself, I'm always going to play as if I want the job. You either play, or get played out.
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In fact, the answer to the question "What is mathematics?" has changed several times during the course of history... It was only in the last twenty years or so that a definition of mathematics emerged on which most mathematicians agree: mathematics is the science of patterns.
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We think we should only go into a country if we can be sure of our return. Jesus never promised that.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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There ought to be a law against necessity.
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It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.
