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
  • Risk
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  • 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

• I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Mean
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• 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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• Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.

  

  Kate Fox
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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
  • Constitution
  • Independence

• 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
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• There are some fantastic parts for older actors.

  

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

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Family
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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
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  • 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
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• I think many cooks are afraid of undercooked meats. A good thermometer is a cook's best friend.

  

  Emeril Lagasse
  • Good
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• I don't use the phrase 'I love you' very often, but I say it every time I talk to my children.

  

  George Hamilton
  • Time
  • Children

• Let me put it in a positive light, with that archive [of Anne Romaine], we have gained extensive knowledge about how [Alex] Haley and Malcolm X actually worked and how the book, the autobiography, was constructed.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Book
  • Knowledge
  • Light

• Clearly, those of us women who play football wish that there was more coverage. But it's one of those things that happens. Every year the level is getting higher, and I think we surprise a lot of people when the world focuses its attention on the World Cup or the Olympics final.

  

  Marta Vieira da Silva
  • People
  • World
  • Women

• Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Knowledge
  • Virtue
  • Faithful

• Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca