#con

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#consists #doer #done #gift #given

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#consult #counsel #especially #friend #his

I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#consider #hair #i #just #myself

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#first #greatest #punishment #sin #sinner

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance. ↗

— Eric Sevareid

#after #constant #grasped #i #never

I'm more conservative with make-up. My everyday look is a bit of concealer with lots and lots of mascara. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#conservative #everyday #i #look #lots

The umlaut isn't on my birth certificate. I had this book as a child called Chloe and Maude, and there was an umlaut on the e, and I said, I want that! It's a little flair. Just to confuse people even more. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#birth certificate #book #called #certificate #child

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished. ↗

— Anne Seward

#being #being happy #content #distinguished #happy

But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations. ↗

— William H. Seward

#because #constitution #constitutional #law #must

If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers? ↗

— William H. Seward

#boundaries #constitution #dangers #enlarge #how