Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

Seneca the Younger

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• Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.

  

  Edgar Wright
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• I like to give people more than their money's worth.

  

  R. Kelly
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• It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
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• Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

  

  Rand Paul
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• Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.

  

  Venus Williams
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• If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
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• I'm not afraid to eat breakfast at three in the morning. As a kid, I used to go to bed at 8 P.M., wake up at 1 A.M. when my grandma would cook me breakfast, and then I'd pass out again.

  

  Taylor Hicks
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• I run around with hillbilly girlsThe weekend sits on my hillbilly worldYou better be ready when the sun goes downThat's when country comes to town.

  

  Toby Keith
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• I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.

  

  Christina Aguilera
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  • Albums

• We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.

  

  Loretta Lynn
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• For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.

  

  Anthony Hope
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• Everyone's not good at everything, it's ok to depend on someone.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
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• We may express them [emotions] physically slightly differently, and it's of course graded depending on the circumstance, but the essence of the process is going to be the same, unless one of us is not quite well put together and is missing something, otherwise it's going to be the same.

  

  Antonio Damasio
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• I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

  

  Elia Kazan
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• Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• Writing about Jerusalem was very stressful; every word counts.

  

  Simon Sebag Montefiore
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• All the other stuff without love? Not worth a whole lot. Love starts with ourselves and needs to be approached like anything else we want to master-with a lot of diligent studying and practicing!

  

  Brian Francis Johnson AC/DC
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  • Stuff

• I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with.

  

  Anne Ford
  • Accepting
  • Disability
  • Diagnose

• That kind of empty; when hope is no longer deferred but evaporated, and try as you might, and you do try, you can't find the pleasure in the little things. A fine meal, good music, a breathtaking view of the landscape, the smell of the ocean, snow falling, it all adds up to a storehouse of memories and regrets, and you can't imagine there's a perchance left to be had.

  

  Binnie Kirshenbaum
  • Music
  • Memories
  • Pleasure

• So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Pleasure
  • Certain
  • Limits