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| As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| If you wished to be loved, love. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Malice drinks one half of its own poison. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| A great mind becomes a great fortune. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| He who has great power should use it lightly. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Time heals what reason cannot. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Time discovers truth. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - De Tranquillitate Animi |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Those whom fortune has never favoured are more joyful than those whom she has deserted. - De Tranquillitate Animi |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly. - Epistulae ad Lucilium |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. - Epistulae ad Lucilium |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. - Epistulae ad Lucilium |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another. - Hercules Furens |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| To greed, all nature is insufficient. - Hercules Oetaeus |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death a thousand doors open on to it. - Phoenissae |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it. |
Roger Starr |
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| Real riches are the riches possessed inside. |
B. C. Forbes |
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| Gods are fragile things they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. |
Chapman Cohen |
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| Green Goblin We are who we choose to be... now, CHOOSE. |
Spider-Man |
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| Ring Announcer What's your name kid Peter The Human Spider. Ring Announcer That's it The Human Spider That's the best you've got Peter Yeah. Ring Announcer Well that sucks. |
Spider-Man |
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| Green Goblin The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout. Down came the Goblin and took the spider out. |
Spider-Man |
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| Spider-Man Go web. Fly. Up, up, and away web. Shazam. Web it. Tally ho. |
Spider-Man |
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| Uncle Ben With great power, comes great responsibility. |
Spider-Man |
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| Peter Not everyone is meant to make a difference. But for me, the choice to lead an ordinary life is no longer an option. |
Spider-Man |
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| Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied. |
Spider-Man |
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| J. Jonah Jameson Hoffman, run down to the patent office and market the name Green Goblin. I want a quarter every time someone says it. |
Spider-Man |
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| When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. |
Ty Cobb |
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| Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish to bewail it senseless. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer because it was he, because it was I. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| Tolerance is another word for indifference. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will Lose its freedom and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous -- on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| We do not write because we want to we write because we have to. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| He had heard people speak contemptuously of money he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| I do not confer praise or blame I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| D'you call life a bad job Never We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| The important thing was to love rather than to be loved. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead they did not seem to belong to the same species and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| When things are at their worst I find something always happens. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| Life isn't long enough for love and art. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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| This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper. |
T. S. Eliot |
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| April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers. |
T. S. Eliot |
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| Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind. |
T. S. Eliot |
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| What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. |
T. S. Eliot |
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| Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. |
T. S. Eliot |
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| I will show you fear in a handful of dust. |
T. S. Eliot |
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| So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good so far as we do evil or good, we are human and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing at least we exist. |
T. S. Eliot |
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| We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. |
T. S. Eliot |
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| Only those who will risk going too far Can possibly find out how far one can go. |
T. S. Eliot |
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| Immature poets imitate mature poets steal. |
T. S. Eliot |
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| Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information |
T. S. Eliot |
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| And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls. |
T. S. Eliot |
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| The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates. |
T. S. Eliot |
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