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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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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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.
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I had never thought about writing a novel. But I had two young kids, and I realized that if I could write a novel, I could work at home.
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To my mum, I owe security in a very insecure young life. We lived in about 10 different places because of my father's chequered career, and she always made me feel a sense of consistency and security. I was a well-mothered boy.
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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.
