Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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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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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical; it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
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Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
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I'm confident in my team. I'm confident in my coaches. I'm confident in my ability. I worked really hard to become a better mixed martial artist.
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Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
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A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.
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I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.
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The prime minister is not a private individual, but the leader of the Jewish State and the Jewish world as a whole.
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Biology is Engineering
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Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.
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War's a fearsome thing. They'll be cunning that catches me at this wark again.
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There was a Russian cult of eunuchs known as the Skoptsy who were renowned for their proficiency as mathematicians, bankers, and moneylenders. Outsiders called them rapacious but this was simply their jealousy speaking - when one is freed from sexual desire, or sexual desire is transmuted into work, suddenly the world becomes engorged with possibilities.
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You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.
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When the individual says he has a valid title to life, he means that all that is he, is his own; his body, his mind, his faculties. Maybe there is something else to life, such as a soul, but without going into that realm, he is willing to settle on what he knows about himself-his consciousness.
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Life can be thought of as water kept at the right temperature in the right atmosphere in the right light for a long enough period of time.
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Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.
