Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.

Seneca the Younger

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• When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.

  

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• The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

  

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• Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.

  

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• The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.

  

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• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

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• Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.

  

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• It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.

  

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• It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.

  

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• If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.

  

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• Find the best in everybody. … you might have to wait a long time, sometimes years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.

  

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• Honestly face your inner poverty as a means of discovering your inner wealth.

  

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• 'Yo' waddup; this is Snoop D-O-Double-G sayin' stop the violence, drop the guns, and increase the peace.'

  

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• In the Conservative Party, we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us, it is not who you are, who your family is or where you come from that matters. It is what you are and what you can do for our country that counts. That is our vision.

  

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• It is not our policy to suppress success.

  

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• I think I'd like my hair to be perfect.

  

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• Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination, where as you can watch a film-and even enjoy it-in a state of mindless passivity.

  

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• I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.

  

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• I've never been a guy that's consistently hit home runs. It's always seemed to come, like, three or four in a week or two, and then I'll shut it down for a couple of weeks.

  

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• Now that Arab women are pouring into the streets by the million, men discover with dismay that they, not women, were the captives of the harem dream.

  

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• I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

  

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• The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Heaven
  • Mankind