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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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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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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My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern.
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What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.
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In England, 'The Muppet Show' is very much seen as an English thing. So for us in the U.K., it is one of the treasures of the history of children's TV and of comedy, basically.
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I think the reality is that it's never been a better time to be an entrepreneur, it's never been a better time to work at a startup. You work at a really intellectually free environment, you get to work with people who are like-minded, it's very energetic. It's wonderful.
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The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No one can proxy for us a masterpiece of loving or experience for us the rapture of art or launch for us book ships freighted with sweet bread to strengthen man. As of old we must be our own seers, musicians and explorers, and to an extent vaster than ever before.
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When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.
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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.
