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Seneca

"The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth."

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"The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth."

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Amber Hurdle

"Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far."

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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

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"The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle."

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"Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice."

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"I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth."

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Amber Hurdle

"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."

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"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth."

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"Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves."

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Amber Hurdle

"That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb."

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Amber Hurdle

"In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility."

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"I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I complain of in apt metaphor, I am distressed, not by a tempest, but by sea-sickness."
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"There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals."
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"I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?"
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"The wish for healing has always been half of health."
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"Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind."
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"It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth."
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"And so there is no reason for you to think that any man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles, he has not lived long " he has existed long. For what if you should think that man had had a long voyage who had been caught by a fierce storm as soon as he left harbour, and, swept hither and thither by a succession of winds that raged from different quarters, had been driven in a circle around the same course? Not much voyaging did he have, but much tossing about."
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