Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
Quotes to Explore
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.
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There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.
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I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.
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And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.
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I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
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I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
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A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.
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We are all trying to achieve our dreams.
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
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I drive a Nissan Versa and would never spend real money on a car because I destroy things.
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If we cannot agree, then at least we ought to move on.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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My whole childhood, that made my skin curl. I was looking for something authentic. I think that drove me into the arts, I really do. That really did it. The only other thing that made me survive, as a human being, was getting into the arts. I was surrounded by people that were very bright and they invited you in. They were gracious. So, it gave me a great education.
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I got all the respect in the world for the front-runners in this race, but ask yourself: If we replace a Democratic insider with a Republican insider, you think we're really going to change Washington, D.C.? You don't have to settle for Washington and Wall Street insiders who supported the Wall Street bailout and the Obamacare individual mandate.
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We live in a world where people say that you can believe anything you want about God.
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A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
