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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.


Lucanus Marcus Annaeus Lucan

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An idle life always produces varied inclinations. [Lat., Variam semper dant otia mentem.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge. [Lat., Nulla manus belli, mutato ju...
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) They are borne along by the violence of their rage, and think it is a waste of time to ask who are ...
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) The victorious cause pleased the gods, but the victory pleased Cato. [Lat., Victrix cause Diis pl...
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others. [Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Agreement exists in disagreement. [Lat., Mansit concordia discors.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) The chiefs contend only for their place of burial. [Lat., Ducibus tantum de funere pugna est.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Those who guilt stains it equals. [Lat., Facinus quos inquinat aequat.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin s...
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved. [Lat., Felix se nescit amari.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. [Lat., Discite quam pa...
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Might was the measure of right. [Lat., Mensuraque juris Vis erat.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Idle rumors were also added to well-founded apprehensions. [Lat., Vana quoque ad veros accessit fa...
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) And rejoicing that he has made his way by ruin. [Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn. [Lat., Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done. [Lat., Nil actum credens, ...
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) He believed that he was born, not for himself, but for the whole world. [Lat., Nec sibi sed toti ...
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Each man makes his own shipwreck. [Lat., Naufragium sibi quisque facit.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
LUCANUS MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
LUCANUS MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN 'Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
LUCANUS MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN Such crimes has superstition caused.
LUCANUS MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the fl...
LUCANUS MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others. [Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]
LUCANUS MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.
STIEG LARSSON We're giving you an opportunity to belong to something and not fight alone for what you believe in. ...
M.R. MERRICK QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: “You could be facing lots of questions while living. You could answers thos...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER What do you get when you cross the Godfather with a lawyer?
An offer you can't understand.
QUESTIONS They may perform all sorts of religious rituals and good actions, but without the Name, the egotisti...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Deeds are divine, not doctrines. Actions are religious, not creeds.
ABHIJIT NASKAR I don't assign myself to the names of any religious or non religious groups I prefer my actions and...
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH Did you know that the average American spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights t...
MEGAN MCCAFFERTY The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
ANDRE GIDE Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, def...
DAVID WILKERSON It is clear today that more energetic and purposeful Swedish actions during the 1940s could have led...
GORAN PERSSON Morality in its noblest forms remains inexplicable unless one takes into account that power of growt...
ELLEN KEY We'd rather have a grand spectacle of retribution of the 'wicked', than their silent walk towards re...
UFUOMA APOKI Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions h...
HOWARD ZINN I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed
JONATHAN SWIFT 'Tis impious in a good man to be sad.
EDWARD YOUNG Reasons... questions... what they have in common?

- All get finded in the hard way.
DEYTH BANGER The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.
OMAR BONGO Religious structure often dilutes the spiritual experience.
STEVE MARABOLI It has often been our best instincts, not our worst, that have led us to do harm in the world
ROSA BROOKS Invisible God has a peculiar way of punishing the wicked by first giving him a lot of wealth and the...
ANUJ SOMANY We demand that U.S.-led NATO take effective actions to positively react to the solemn demands of the...
ZHU BANGZAO The greatest actions of love often got unnoticed.
UNKNOWN It is easy to respect someone asking many questions starting with what, when, where and often why, b...
ANUJ SOMANY Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions beco...
EUGENE IONESCO Beware of the person that is so empowered they ask questions that only actions can answer.-
STEVE MARABOLI Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for w...
MARCUS ANTONIUS I've never liked the recognition, the questions, the publicity. I have often felt like running a...
AL PACINO The study of psychological trauma has repeatedly led into realms of the unthinkable and foundered o...
JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN It has been religious people, often within the organized church, who have been the most critical of ...
ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ Marcus was great. Jon had the big first half, and then Marcus took over in the second half. Marcus d...
GRANT RICE It's not like he's never played in a game before. We're not worried about Marcus. He's a big-time pl...
JEFF KING For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
AESCHYLUS The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into pla...
GIOVANNI PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA Often the devil wants to distract us from our goal, to make us passive and neutralize our actions
SUNDAY ADELAJA Religious minority communities in India have endured incidents of harassment, discrimination, intimi...
TRENT FRANKS It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that led to great events.
PATRICIA MOYES Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually ...
ALVIN E. ROTH The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no acti...
AMIT KALANTRI And now, as I'm lying alone in my own bed, I keep thinking about writhing against him last night, na...
MEGAN MCCAFFERTY With Matthew at her side, Daisy browsed the row of wooden stalls that had been erected along High St...
LISA KLEYPAS A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Succ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at...
MAGGIE GALLAGHER As if reading his mind, she smiled happily up at him. “Gary really came through for us, didn’t h...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN We need Marcus and Brad to have outstanding nights. Both of them. Not just one of them.
BUDDY VALINSKY Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with ...
BIBLE In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and o...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it w...
FREDDIE MERCURY And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankin...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions ...
JOHN LE CARRE You listen to me, woman: you’re mine! I’ll not share you and, by God, we shall be married!” Hi...
SHIRLEE BUSBEE How much electricity savings would result in the city of Mumbai if all the elevator and lift doors i...
APURVA GAGLANI Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuin...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We often hear of someone saying, ‘So you don’t trust me’ or ‘Are you questioning my integrit...
HENRY CLOUD It is hard to express my feelings upon learning that the actions of a Department of Children & Famil...
KATHLEEN KEARNEY Together, they were greater than either them could possibly be apart. Together, she prayed, they wer...
KAREN ESSEX Religious sentiments are many a times much above reality. All are aware of reality but blinded by fa...
AMIT ABRAHAM Marcus Slaughter and Brandon Heath. Those are the guys coaches have talked about, and the ones we ha...
BROCK REICHNER I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I thought he'd appreciate that. Whenever Tom led our morning worship service, he'd often just sit in...
GREG ROLLINS We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
JAMES THURBER We somehow have led ourselves to believe that our questions are big enough to encircle life, and tha...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If a man WANTS to be with you, he will make his actions clear. There won’t be any questions, murki...
MANDY HALE Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE If you want wise lessons, ask wise questions. The type of questions you often ask tells the kind of ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven
TRYON EDWARDS It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful action...
DESMOND TUTU Jeremy Corbyns actions have led a significant percentage of his followers to believe that his words ...
ANITA B. SULSER Marcus was our defensive stopper all year. His offense got better, and he might have led us in scori...
ARCHIE SHERBINOW The real questions refuse to be placated. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered ...
INGRID BENGIS Too often it is fear that guides our actions when compassion would better serve.
DAWN HAMMILL A wicked feels proud to see the crowd around oneself often, but a wise feels it is nice to spend mos...
ANUJ SOMANY Both against Albany and tonight, although in different ways, these teams forced Marcus Williams to m...
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LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others. [Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Agreement exists in disagreement. [Lat., Mansit concordia discors.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) The chiefs contend only for their place of burial. [Lat., Ducibus tantum de funere pugna est.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Those who guilt stains it equals. [Lat., Facinus quos inquinat aequat.]
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LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved. [Lat., Felix se nescit amari.]
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LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Might was the measure of right. [Lat., Mensuraque juris Vis erat.]
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LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Each man makes his own shipwreck. [Lat., Naufragium sibi quisque facit.]
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LUCAN The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself.
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LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
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LUCAN The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
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LUCAN The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself
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LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Every guilty person is his own hangman.
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LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their h...
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LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA He who has great power should use it lightly.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
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LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Wealth is the slave of wise man. The master of a fool.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our nee...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA To wish to progress is the largest part of progress.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA While we are postponing life speeds up.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own re...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA One must steer, not talk.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one ...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA In war there is no prize for runner-up.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA For greed all nature is too little.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Being an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef, there's nothing traditional about my Thanksgiving ...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday - it's a day that's American to the core and it...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Cooking is in an honest profession where you cannot hide and let others do the work for you. You hav...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON For me, brunch is such a versatile meal since you can play on both the sweet and savory in your dish...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Childhood nutrition and healthy eating is a cause that is extremely close to my heart.
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Spices, of course, are essential.
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Like all food, whether you're talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it&#...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Every time you use the word 'healthy,' you lose. The key is to make yummy, delicious food th...
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