Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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• If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • True
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• Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.

  

  Ted Deutch
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  • Security
  • Budget

• You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
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  • Lies

• Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.

  

  Yuna
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  • Generations
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• Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.

  

  Kate Fox
  • Different
  • Women
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• Men are irrelevant.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Men
  • Irrelevant

• Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constitution, or at least most of it, but also the most searching commentary on it that has ever appeared. Each of them served as president of the United States for eight years. What they had to say to each other has to command attention.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Attention
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• I can't stand recipes that don't have background.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Stand
  • Background
  • Recipes

• I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it.

  

  Mac Davis
  • People
  • Happy
  • Guy

• Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Singing
  • Acting
  • Self

• It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Nature
  • Never
  • Distance

• There are some fantastic parts for older actors.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• I didn't have a very religious family.

  

  Barbara Walters
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  • Very

• Yes, let the Angel blow! A peal from the parted heaven, The first of seven!- The warning, not yet the sign, of woe! That men arise And look about them with wakened eyes, Behold on their garments the dust and slime, Refrain, forbear, Accept the weight of a nobler care And take reproach from the fallen time!

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Time
  • Men
  • Eyes

• Her mother called to her. She said, 'Where are you going, Flora Belle?' Flora didn't answer her. She never answered her mother when she called her Flora Belle. Sometimes she didn't answer her mother when she called her Flora either.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
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• Desolation Island (1979)

  

  Patrick O'Brian

• I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • People
  • Law

• Piety is not an end but a means to attain by the greatest peace of mind the highest degree of culture.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mind
  • Culture
  • Peace

• Some people say I was a thug and a gangster; other people remember me as a poet and a born leader. But I'm saying to you, measure a man by his actions fully, through his whole life, from the beginning to the end.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • People
  • Life
  • Remember

• The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that made me want to do 'The Stand.' The more you can do, the better, and I've been known as a character actor.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Character
  • Chance
  • Romantic

• Thy hue, dear pledge, is pure and brightAs in that well-remember'd nightWhen first thy mystic braid was wove,And first my Agnes whisper'd love.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Remember

• Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • Enough
  • Lying
  • Perception

• The goal for this program was to open the door to sport for these service members, and it's clear we did that, ... With the programs being organized at the military and VA medical centers, I am optimistic that this introduction has started some of these service members down the road to everyday activity in sport.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Service
  • Goal
  • Program

• Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca