Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.

Seneca the Younger

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• Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.

  

  Vanilla Ice
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• All my books are optimistic!

  

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• I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.

  

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• I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

  

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• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

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• One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
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• I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.

  

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• The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.

  

  Fernando Torres
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• It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
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• I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.

  

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• Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?

  

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• I love Karlie Kloss. I want to bake cookies with her!

  

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• I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.

  

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• Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.

  

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• People always say that Glasgow has had umpteen social problems but keeps finding ways of getting over its difficulties and transforming itself. Maybe, belonging to the city I'm able to renew myself too, and keep extending out into some new area.

  

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• Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.

  

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• Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt.

  

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• Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.

  

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• Schools of journalism at exemplary American research universities, where the academic disciplines still coexist, are positioned to draw upon the full intellectual and educational resources of the university environment to help produce the skilled, responsible, expert, knowledgeable and highly proficient journalism leaders that our society-indeed the world-has need of, especially in these complex and challenging times, ... Our democracy depends on journalism to keep its institutions challenged and responsive to the public's needs, and the quality of the profession demands the best a university can offer.

  

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• I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

  

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• Space Jam is my favorite movie. Don't ask me why, it just is.

  

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• I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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• Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.

  

  Seneca the Younger
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  • Virtue